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AB-111

Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt

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What it means

robots.txt includes a Crawl-delay directive to control crawl rate.

Why it matters

Crawl-delay prevents aggressive crawling that can overload your server and ensures agents respect your rate limits.

What's wrong

robots.txt with no Crawl-delay directive.

What's right

Crawl-delay: 1 in robots.txt.

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