Robots group merging

Combining rules from every group that matches the same product token. Under RFC 9309, matching groups are combined rather than only the first being used.

Terms this definition uses

Product token · Product · token

Crawling and indexing

How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.

Crawler identity · Product token · Identification string · Crawl frontier · Crawl queue · Crawl scheduler · Seed URL · URL discovery · Link extraction · Recrawl interval · Crawl frequency · Host politeness · Crawl rate · Crawl-delay · Longest-match rule · Wildcard rule · End-anchor rule · Robots cache · Robots parse error · Robots redirect · Robots unavailable · Sitemap · Sitemap URL set · Sitemap lastmod · Sitemap hreflang · Image sitemap · Video sitemap · News sitemap · Canonical cluster · Duplicate cluster · Index selection · Crawl demand · Rendering queue · Rendered HTML · Indexing pipeline · Index freshness · Index lag · Deindexing · Removal request · URL inspection · Crawl anomaly · Bot spoofing · Shared IP range · Web Bot Auth

← Crawl-delay · Longest-match rule →

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