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What is robots.txt?
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Please tell me, What is robots.txt?
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Robots.txt is a text file
Webmasters create to instruct robots how to crawl and index pages on their website.
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Robots.txt is a text file that is inserted into your website and contains information for search engine robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.
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robots.txt is file which is control whole website from search engine bot
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The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.
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robots.txt is a file which is control of search engine bot.
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The robots exclusion protocol, or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to teach robots how to crawl and index pages on their website.
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What is a robots.txt file?
The robots.txt file is a simple text file placed on your web server which tells webcrawlers like Googlebot if they should access a file or not.
User-agent: *Disallow: /folder/Disallow: /file.htmlDisallow: /image.png
Why should you learn about robots.txt?
Improper usage of the robots.txt file can hurt your ranking
The robots.txt file controls how search engine spiders see and interact with your webpages
This file is mentioned in several of the Google guidelines
This file, and the bots they interact with, are fundamental parts of how search engines work
Tip: To see if your robots.txt is blocking any important files used by Google, use the Google guidelines tool.
Priorities for your website
There are three important things that any webmaster should do when it comes to the robots.txt file.
Determine if you have a robots.txt file
If you have one, make sure it is not harming your ranking or blocking content you don't want blocked
Determine if you need a robots.txt file
Determine if your robots.txt is blocking important files
You can use the Google guidelines tool, which will warn you if you are blocking certain page resources that Google needs to understand your pages.
If you have access and permission you can use the Google search console to test your robots.txt file. Instructions to do so are found here (tool not public - requires login).
To fully understand if your robots.txt file is not blocking anything you do not want it to block you will need to understand what it is saying. We cover that below.
Do you need a robots.txt file?
You may not even need to have a robots.txt file on your site. In fact it is often the case you do not need one.
Reasons you may want to have a robots.txt file:
You have content you want blocked from search engines
You are using paid links or advertisements that need special instructions for robots
You want to fine tune access to your site from reputable robots
You are developing a site that is live, but you do not want search engines to index it yet
They help you follow some Google guidelines in some certain situations
You need some or all of the above, but do not have full access to your webserver and how it is configured
Each of the above situations can be controlled by other methods, however the robots.txt file is a good central place to take care of them and most webmasters have the ability and access required to create and use a robots.txt file. Hadoop Admin Training | Data Science Training | Big Data Training | Devops Training
Reasons you may not want to have a robots.txt file:
It is simple and error free
You do not have any files you want or need to be blocked from search engines
You do not find yourself in any of the situations listed in the above reasons to have a robots.txt file
It is okay to not have a robots.txt file.
When you do not have a robots.txt file the search engine robots like Googlebot will have full access to your site. This is a normal and simple method that is very common.
How to make a robots.txt file
If you can type or copy and paste, you can also make a robots.txt file.
The file is just a text file, which means that you can use notepad or any other plain text editor to make one. You can also make them in a code editor. You can even "copy and paste" them.
Instead of thinking "I am making a robots.txt file", just think, "I am writing a note" they are pretty much the same process.
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The robots exclusion protocol or robots.txt is a text file webmasters develop to teach robots how to crawl and index pages on their website.
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Robots.txt is such type of file which consist of such URL that you don't let search engine to crawl.
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Robots.txt is text file. work of robots.txt file basically robots.txt file help to block page & directory
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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. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do.
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The robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots.
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The robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots how to crawl and index pages on their website.
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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. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.
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