Official statement
The general recommendation is to let Google crawl and automatically decide, use canonical for normalization, and only block crawling via robots.txt or URL Parameters in last resort if absolutely necessary.
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Should You Really Block the GoogleOther Crawler in Your Robots.txt?
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TL;DR
Google recommends allowing its bots to crawl the pages and using canonical tags for normalization. Only block crawling as a last resort.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Qu'est-ce qu'une balise canonical exactement ?
C'est un indicateur pour Google de la version préférée d'une page lorsque des URL similaires existent.
Est-il vraiment important de laisser Google crawler toutes les pages ?
Laisser crawler permet à Google de bien comprendre les contenus et améliore la capacité d'indexation précises.
Comment savoir si Google respecte mon canonical ?
Utilisez des outils de webmaster pour vérifier l'indexation et le respect des balises canonicals.
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