http://www.webpronews.com Submitted by David A. Utter on Thu, 08/16/2007
The robots.txt analysis tool at Google Webmaster Central received some much-needed updating, and should be more effective for webmasters today.
Google followed up webmaster feedback about the need to upgrade the Webmaster Central robots.txt analysis tool with a new version. The latest update makes the tool capable of recognizing sitemap declarations and relative URLs.
The Webmaster Central blog announced the update and its implications. Webmasters can see if their sitemap's URL and scope test as valid, Google said.
Expanded reporting options for the analysis tool look much more useful. It will tell if multiple problems per line of robots.txt exist, instead of just stopping with the first problem noticed. Google said they have also improved analysis and validation.
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