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Meta's Crawler Goes Live Oct 30. Your Real Deadline Is Oct 29.

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Five days left until Meta's crawl clause kicks in. Actually — four. And if you're planning to touch your robots.txt on the morning of October 30th, you've already missed it. Here's the detail that changes the calendar: Meta's own crawler documentation says a robots.txt change can take up to 24 hour…

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  1. 2026-10-25 04:16 · DEV Community — AI
    Meta's Crawler Goes Live Oct 30. Your Real Deadline Is Oct 29.

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