[Bots] Clarify managed robots.txt page for readability#29039
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Improve introduction, define jargon, and reduce assumptions on the managed robots.txt reference page: - Rewrite intro to establish why (AI crawlers scraping content) before describing the feature - State voluntary compliance prominently instead of burying it - Define 'directives' inline on first use - Define Content Signals in prose before the code block - Replace 'Free zones' with 'domains on the Free plan' - Clarify relationship between robots.txt and AI Crawl Control - Fix grammar: 'a HTTP' to 'an HTTP' - Remove unused Render import
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) * [Bots] Clarify managed robots.txt page for readability Improve introduction, define jargon, and reduce assumptions on the managed robots.txt reference page: - Rewrite intro to establish why (AI crawlers scraping content) before describing the feature - State voluntary compliance prominently instead of burying it - Define 'directives' inline on first use - Define Content Signals in prose before the code block - Replace 'Free zones' with 'domains on the Free plan' - Clarify relationship between robots.txt and AI Crawl Control - Fix grammar: 'a HTTP' to 'an HTTP' - Remove unused Render import * Trigger build --------- Co-authored-by: Pedro Sousa <680496+pedrosousa@users.noreply.github.com>
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Improves clarity and reduces jargon on the managed robots.txt reference page, based on an ELI5 analysis that identified missing context, undefined terms, and buried key information.
Disallow: /) for readers unfamiliar with robots.txt syntaxRenderimport