Robots cache
A crawler’s stored copy of robots.txt.
What Robots cache does not show
A corrected file may not affect requests until that copy expires or is refreshed.
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How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.
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Questions about Robots cache
What is Robots cache?
A crawler’s stored copy of robots.txt.
What does Robots cache not show or guarantee?
A corrected file may not affect requests until that copy expires or is refreshed.
Which area of the glossary does Robots cache belong to?
Crawling and indexing: How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.
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