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Robots.txt Rules Explained: Crawl Control, Not Access Control
How robots.txt controls compliant crawler requests—and why it is not authentication or a reliable noindex mechanism.
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Noindex vs Disallow: Which Rule Solves Which Problem?
A decision table for robots.txt, noindex, X-Robots-Tag, and authentication.
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