John Mueller from Google did it once more together with his website and this time uploaded an audio file, in wav format, for his robots.txt file. You’ll be able to go to it and take heed to him learn out his robots.txt guidelines in his personal voice. It’s a legitimate robots.txt file however I think zero serps can perceive it.
They usually do not perceive it due to his German-Swiss accent, it’s as a result of serps don’t comprehend robots.txt recordsdata that aren’t in textual content format.
Right here is the audio file situated at johnmu.com/robots.txt:
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I noticed this from Michael Carrico on LinkedIn. Michael Carrico wrote, “Has anybody seen John Mueller’s most up-to-date Robots.txt file? It is an audio file! Love that he checks this stuff on his personal website. My assumption can be that he’s testing whether or not Google can nonetheless digest the file correctly. Very fascinating!”
John replied, “It’s a technically-valid robots.txt file too, it appears most crawlers settle for it. I wrote up the way it’s made however by no means bought round to placing it up.” John instructed me, “It is really a sound textual content robots.txt file. Somebody talked about you should utilize view-source with it, and it will present it to you (or you should utilize ‘curl’ or another command line device, however who does that these days :-)). The robots.txt customary is versatile in that it skips over issues it does not perceive, that is additionally why Gary’s file works.”
Earlier this 12 months, John had his site removed from Google Search.
Possibly he’s having an excessive amount of enjoyable?
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
