Google shared several updates related to Robots.txt Documentation & Structured Data Documentation last Friday.

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Following are the changes mentioned below:

• Simplified the introduction page to make it clearer what is robots.txt and what is its intended use.
• Expanded the instructions about creating and updating robots.txt files.
• Removed redundant sections from our documentation about how Google handles robots.txt.
• Simplified sentences across all robots.txt documentation in English. This helps with localization.
• Removed redundant documentation about how to build, test, and release structured data. Each feature has guidance about this, embedded directly into each guide (for example, the Video structured data guide.
• Improved the troubleshooting sections across all structured data feature guides (for example, the Product structure data guide.
• Added more beginner-friendly information about how to get started with structured data.

Here is why Google made the changes from Lizzi Harvey & Gary Illyes from Google:

@methode oh come on. there were only 148 comments, and a 4 page doc.

here are the other links if you wanna take a look!https://t.co/kREZTScTbt https://t.co/cDSV8PuYXk pic.twitter.com/hDggaUCz71

— Lizzi (@okaylizzi) June 18, 2021