What do you mean by Robots.txt? Why it is used?

[phil12]

Robot.txt is used to in order to instruct the search engine crawler about the following and not following of the links. The link with Nofollow tags are not visited or consider by the spiders.


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[elenabrown]

Robots.txt is stand for Robots Exclusion Protocol.

1. The robots.txt is a simple text file in your web site that inform search engine bots how to crawl and index website or web pages.
2. By default search engine bots crawl everything possible unless they are forbidden from doing so. They always scan the robots.txt file before crawling the web site.
3. Declaring a robots.txt means that visitors (bots) are not allowed to index sensitive data but it doesn’t mean that they can’t. The legal/good bots follow what is instructed to them but the Malware robots don’t care about it, so don’t try to use it as a security for your web site.

[PetrK]

I guess that will help: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi ... wer=156449

[SEO World Class]

Hi Friends

It is simple text file that is created using text editors. It provides essential information to search engine. Best practice robots.txt file improve search engine rankings for the site. So this is one of the important file to have nice ranking on search engine and SEO.

When search crawls our website, it will look for this particular file on our site. This special file tells the search engine spider, to priority the web pages to be indexed. In the sense, which page should be index and which page should be discarded. It requests the search engine crawler not to index these files as they are not request to be viewed by users.

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[hugorane12]

Robots.txt file is very important for any website. It restricts search engine which part of website crawler can index and crawl. Its very helpful to keep your privacy secret.

[Shelly47]

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[RashidS]

Robots.txt is a file which tells crawlers to crawl website or not.

[mujahid]

Robots.txt is a standard text file is used for websites or web applications to communicate with web crawlers (bots).
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[Arpita]

The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.

[mraj27030]

Robot.txt is file which commands the bots whether or not to crawl any particular page or website.

[riyajindal]

The robots.txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl. ... The slash after “Disallow” tells the robot to not visit any pages on the site.

[abanote]

Robots.txt is used to allow or prohibit bots to visit or not the files in question.
You can also specify which robot can crawl your site or not

[webappi]

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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.

There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt:

robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use.

[ptiacademy]

Robot.txt means, you have a web page and you want to block any inner page of that URL you use Robot.txt. If you want that only you can see any particular page on your website then you use Robot.txt.
It is used in all website because it is mandatory. It's an algorithm of Google that if you have a website then you must use Robot.txt on any page, that is for single or multiple pages.

[aezioninc]

Robot.txt is used to show allow or disallow links, it is helpful to protect any unwanted links from the users.
visit: https://www.aezion.com/robots.txt