Use robots.txt to block crawlers from "action URLs." This prevents wasted server resources from useless crawler hits. It's an age-old best practice that remains relevant today. Google's Gary Illyes ...

Google has released a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console. Google also made relevant information around robots.txt available from within the Page indexing report in Search Console.

Google has quietly updated its list of user-triggered fetchers with new documentation for Google NotebookLM. The importance of this seemingly minor change is that it’s clear that Google NotebookLM ...