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Where to Find robots.txt and What the File Reveals About Crawling

You find robots.txt at the root of a site's host, which means you append the filename to the bare domain: example.com/robots.txt , never to a subfolder path. Google for Developers states the rule plainly, and everything confusing about this file follows from it. Most people who go looking for robot…

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  1. 2026-10-31 06:11 · DEV Community — AI
    Where to Find robots.txt and What the File Reveals About Crawling

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