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A robots.txt file can carry crawl directives and a sitemap while also adding a harmless brand easter egg for people who inspect it.
txt, what are you even doing? txt. It tells crawlers what to look at, what not to look at.
It gives a sitemap, and then just for fun, shows me the hashtags at the side. Make it so the crawlers ignore all of this. I found some free ASCII art generator to take this image of me, turn it into this.
Shout out to Nike, who I got the idea from. txt.
A robots.txt file can carry crawl directives and a sitemap while also adding a harmless brand easter egg for people who inspect it.
Keep robots.txt functionally correct first: crawler directives and sitemap must be clear, then add optional ASCII or brand copy that does not hide or block important content.
This source is connected to Robots.txt brand signals.
It tells crawlers what to look at, what not to look at. It gives a sitemap, and then just for fun, shows me the hashtags at the side.