what is robots txt

[infinitnet]

robots.txt can be used to tell crawlers which directories they're allowed to crawl and furthermore you can even configure which search engines are allowed to crawl which folders.

[weale15]

Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine spiders (what are search engine spiders?), also known as search engine robots.

[steveschmidt85]

Robots.txt used to tell search engine spiders which area of the site is disallowed to crawl. So this file is used to set permission for search engine robots regarding site crawl.

[thecroods]

Robot.txt is the notepad file you have a crawl you page which one that mostly not use so you add that one page in robot.txt so that page is online so client see very well but Google is not crawl that one page....

[johndevis]

Robots.txt is a text file in which you can control search engine to crawl your website. It is used to restrict the search engine for crawling a specific URL or portion of website.

[sabrinasai]

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.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

[Jitendra Shukla]

robots.txt file is basically to prevent Google's crawler to stop crawling any particular page, for example if we don't want anyone visit our payment page directly through the search engine then we use robots.txt file so it'll be Not display in Search engine.

[limanto]

Basically this is a file that search engine crawlers (or bots) will look at to determine which assets of your site should be indexed.

[seomarketingUK]

The robots.txt file is a text file in your web site which amounts to search engine bots how to crawl and index site or web pages.

[Manov]

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.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

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[ackerlee]

Robot txt is a file which instruct the search engine crawlers about the crawling of urls.

[Andycoper]

Robots.txt is a file through which you can guide search engines to crawl or not to crawl certain sections of your website.

Google specifically follows instructions given in this robots.txt file

[rickymartins]

Robots.txt is file which help seo to stop search engine from crawling or you can say that crawler or search engine will not hit your those page which you do not want to crawl.

[konetkar500]

A file written and stored in the root directory of a website that restricts the Search Engine spiders from indexing certain pages of the website.

[MikeQ]

Using robots.txt file you can allow or disallow search engines to access your file...