What is the use of Robots.txt?

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ajaymehta588

Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit.

The structure of a robots.txt is

User-agent:
Disallow:

User-agent are search engines' crawlers and disallow: lists the files and directories to be excluded from indexing.


guptaabhijit318

Robots.txt is frequent name of a text file that is uploaded to a Web site's root directory and linked in the html code of the Web site. The robots.txt file is used to have the funds for directions about the Web site to Web robots and spiders.

krishnanayak

Web site proprietors utilize the/robots.txt record to give directions about their website to web robots; this is known as The Robots Exclusion Protocol. The "Client specialists: *" implies this segment applies to all robots. The "Prohibit:/" tells the robot that it ought not visit any pages on the site.

fix.97

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.


RH-Calvin

Robots.txt is a text file defined in the website that helps to contain instructions for search engine robots. The file lists webpages which are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.

Shikha Singh

When a search engine crawler comes to your site, it will look for a special file on your site. That file is called robots.txt and it tells the search engine spider, which Web pages of your site should be indexed and which Web pages should be ignored.

The robots.txt file is a simple text file (no HTML), that must be placed in your root directory, for example:

http://www.yourwebsite.com/robots.txt


designstoredxb

The robots.txt file can be used to block specific pages from the search engine bots so they cannot crawl those pages such admin pages and you can only unblock those pages which you want to show to the visitors publicly.


lilyalvin

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The Robots.txt file serves as a guide for web robots, informing them about the areas of the website they are permitted to access and index. It contains specific directives for different user-agents, instructing them on how to interact with the website's content. For example, it can specify whether certain directories or files should be excluded from indexing or whether the crawling frequency should be limited for particular sections of the site. This provides website administrators with a level of control over how search engine crawlers interact with their content.

Robots.txt is a valuable tool for managing a website's visibility in search engine results. By using this file, website owners can influence which pages are displayed in search listings, thus affecting the discoverability of their content. However, it's important to remember that not all web robots adhere to the instructions provided in Robots.txt, so it's not a foolproof method for controlling access to website content.
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TomClarke

A  robots.txt file gives instructions to web robots about the pages the website owner doesn't wish  to be "crawled". For instance, if you didn't want your images to be listed by Google and other search engines, you'd block them using  your robots.txt file. It helps to avoid hаcking problems to a website for  payment gateway sites.