What Google says about "wildcards"

🎥 YouTube Videos 2

Should you use wildcards in robots.txt to better control your crawl budget?

Martin Splitt 🎥 YouTube Dec 2024 ★★

Vous pouvez utiliser l'astérisque (*) comme caractère générique (wildcard) dans votre fichier robots.txt pour simplifier vos règles et créer...

Can you really remove URLs in bulk using the Search Console's removal tool?

John Mueller 🎥 YouTube Apr 2016 ★★★

L'outil de suppression d'URL de la Search Console n'est pas prévu pour des suppressions massives de groupes d'URL par wildcards. Il est dest...

📰 Articles 1

How do search engines actually handle specific directives in the robots.txt file?

Google Jan 2019 ★★★

Une fois n'est pas coutume : on parle ici (avec grand plaisir) de Bing dans les "". Le moteur de recherche de Microsoft a en effet indiqué s...

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Should You Really Exclude All Duplicate Pages from Your XML Sitemap?

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Do Images in XML Sitemaps Count Toward the 50,000 URL Limit?

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Should You Noindex Your XML Sitemap to Optimize Crawl Budget?

John Mueller May 2020 ★★★

What are the only two fields in an XML sitemap that Google actually cares about?

John Mueller Aug 2017 ★★

Do You Really Need Backlinks for Google to Crawl Your Pages?

John Mueller Apr 2017 ★

Is it really necessary to split your XML sitemap into multiple files?

John Mueller May 2026 ★★★

How Long Does It Really Take for an Old Domain to Recover Its SEO Visibility?

John Mueller Sep 2025 ★★★

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