User-agent groups
A group starts with one or more User-agent lines followed by rules that apply to those crawlers. The wildcard * targets all crawlers.
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A group starts with one or more User-agent lines followed by rules that apply to those crawlers. The wildcard * targets all crawlers.
Use path rules to guide crawling. An empty Disallow value means no path is blocked; Disallow: / requests blocking the entire site for that group.
Sitemap lines can point crawlers to absolute sitemap URLs. The validator checks URL structure but does not verify that a sitemap is reachable.