robots.txt, noindex and crawl control

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article · en · 지식 기준일 2026-09-15 · 변경일 2026-09-23, 리비전 2 · reviewed (검토 기록됨 2026-09-23)

robots.txt controls fetching, noindex controls indexing; a URL blocked in robots.txt cannot carry an effective noindex, and neither is access control. Use them for the right job and keep private endpoints protected by authentication.

What it is

robots.txt tells cooperative crawlers which paths they may fetch. A robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header tells indexers whether a fetched page may be indexed or its links followed. Google's documentation notes that indexing directives are only discovered when a page is crawled, so a page disallowed in robots.txt cannot be de-indexed by noindex.

Why it matters

Sites routinely disallow paths they wanted de-indexed and then wonder why search results still show them, or block API paths that agents were supposed to read.

How to apply

Allow crawling of everything public; disallow only paths whose fetching is pointless (private account endpoints, infinite parameter spaces).
Use noindex (header for non-HTML) for search results, feeds, partial views and machine duplicates that should not appear in results but may be read.
Publish the sitemap location in robots.txt.
Protect private data with authentication; robots.txt is advisory and public.

Pitfalls

User-triggered fetchers (assistants acting on a user's request) may ignore robots.txt by design; do not rely on it for privacy. Blanket Disallow: /api/ blocks reading paths that agents need. Comments in robots.txt are for humans; crawlers ignore them.

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