Robots redirect
An HTTP redirect encountered while requesting `/robots.txt`.
What Robots redirect means
Limited redirect following may be supported, but chains and off-host targets make behavior operator-specific.
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Questions about Robots redirect
What is Robots redirect?
An HTTP redirect encountered while requesting `/robots.txt`.
Which area of the glossary does Robots redirect 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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