Gary Illyes from Google emphasized the importance of having key pages like the homepage available when the robots.txt returns a 503 error for extended periods.
Carlos Sánchez Donate initiated a significant discussion on LinkedIn about the implications of a persistent robots.txt 503 error and its impact on site crawlers.
Illyes noted that if crawlers can access important pages during a robots.txt error, the site is in a limbo state but may not be penalized as harshly.
The conversation prompted questions about the clarity of robots.txt 5xx error handling in Google's documentation, highlighting the ongoing concerns of SEOs.
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