July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
8h 51m
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Just in case your robots.txt file has full URLs, you should update those as well. Generally speaking, you include relative paths if you are allowing and disallowing access to spiders. One file you most likely have the full reference for is your sitemap file:
User-Agent: *Disallow:Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
While not as common, some sites maintain a disavow file for search engine spiders. They do this to avoid penalties from negative links. This file should also be updated to use https://, which reinforces the site's protocol profile with the search engines.
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