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So you’ve mastered the basics of the robots.txt file, but you’ve also realized that there must be more to this handy tool.
Well, it’s time to dig a little deeper!
As you probably know, robots.txt files are primarily used to guide search engine bots by using rules to block them, or allow them access to, certain parts of your website.
While the simplest way to use the robots.txt file is to block bots from whole directories, there are several advanced functions that give more granular control over how your site is crawled.
Here are five pro tips for those that want to get a little more advanced in their bot wrangling…

Hi Stephan,
Thanks for this post. Didn’t know about noindexing in robots.txt. That’s kinda neat!
Now if only the search engines would recognise it 🙂
/Lars
Nice article Stephan! Hope you are good. You hit all the advanced stuff in this Article. Actually, I try not to use robots.txt though. I would rather use a no index no follow, a real canonical, 301 redirect, etc. But this is a good post.
I definitely agree with you… you did a really good job at getting this across. Thank yall for this.
I liked how you clearly and briefly present the material, so thanx!