what is robots.txt ?

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what is robots.txt ?

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its my opinion,

Robots.txt is one way of telling the Search Engine Bots about the web pages on your website which you do not want them to visit.
Robots.txt is useful for preventing the indexation of the parts of any online content that website owners do not want to display.
Example:
IF you want to block all search engine robots from crawling your website, just put the follow code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
IF you want to block Google from crawling your website, just put the follow code:
User-agent:
Disallow: /
It is important to decide the location of Robots.txt very carefully, or else errors might occur while displaying the website.


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Robot.txt:- Robots.txt is one way of telling the Search Engine Bots about the web pages on your website which you do not want them to visit. Robots.txt is useful for preventing the indexation of the parts of any online content that website owners do not want to display.

If you want to block all search engine robots from crawling your website, just put the following code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

If you want to block Google from crawling your website, just put the following code:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

It is important to decide the location of Robots.txt very carefully, or else errors might occur while displaying the website.

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Robots.txt is a tool which can be used as a indicator to search engine indexing of your website.
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If you want to block all search engine robots from crawling your website, just put the following code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

If you want to block Google from crawling your website, just put the following code:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
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Robots.txt" is a regular text file that through its name, has special meaning to the majority of "honorable" robots on the web. By defining a few rules in this text file, you can instruct robots to not crawl and index certain files, directories within your site, or at all.


Allow indexing of everything

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Disallow indexing of everything

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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

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Its is a imporant file which instructs the robots what should they exclude when indexing pages

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In simple term, robots.txt is a file which instructs search engine which pages to index present in the particular website & which to ignore. Remember, it is the first file which is looked upon by the Google search engine even before sitemap.xml file.
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Robot txt is mainly used for restricting the url which we dont want to crawl by google

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I appreciate your information and recently had to make an update for my robots.txt, as my new server had changed it. It was not appropriate for my WordPress set up at this time.

Amazing what a role this can play for Google and your site SEO!

Thanks

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Robots.txt is a text file we use for the crawler. If we don't want to crawl or index any page of our website so we will use the robots file.
Robots.txt file is useful for preventing the indexation of the parts of any website page that website owners do not want to display.


If we want to disallow only for the google crawler then we will simple use the code.

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

If we want to disallow all search engine for crawling your website then we will use the code.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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Using robots.txt you can give instructions to the search engine crawlers about which pages of your site shouldn't be crawled.
For example; take the netflix site, They only allowed some main pages to crawl, Because they are a paid site. So they restricted the search engine via robots.txt to crawl the specific parts of the sites

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