What is Robots.txt?

[ArkPresentation]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is robots.txt.

[virginoilseom]

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.

[daikaads]

Robots Txt is an HTML attribute that is used to inform the search engines not to crawl and index the web pages in the website.

[veraajverma]

Robots.txt is a file to give instructions to web robots about the website crawling; 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.

[wellliving]

It is Robot txt and this means that there are certain places on the website where there is personal information and in these places customers are not allowed to go so in this case robot txt is used

[24x7servermanag]

Robot.txt is used to crawl the pages website. It tells that which part of the area should not be accessed. We can define the pages which should not be accessed by putting the disallow tag in robot.txt. Those disallow pages are restricted to visit. It also help to index the web content.

[manisha.arr]

robots.txt file is used to give instruction to the bots that crawl the website.

[alliecandy]

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.

[farazz]

robot.txt is a file which let you communicate between the web crawler and website...in the way of telling which web pages to be crawled and which not to be

[ajay49560]

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[mikerock]

Robots.txt is a test file uploaded at the root of any website. It is used to allow or block URLs of the website to be crawled by different search engine. We need to follow a set protocol prescribed by robots.txt community

[Paul0130]

A txt file that gives instructions to web crawlers what to do.

[davidweb09]

Robots.txt file have set of rules that are used to send instructions to search engine bots while indexing the website.

[bessieexum]

Robot.txt is utilized to crawl the webpage internet site. It informs. We can specify the pages that must not be obtained by putting the disallow label in robot.txt. Those disallow pages have been limited to see. Additionally, it help index the internet content.

[ashishbansal]

It’s a file that instructs search engines how to crawl a website.

It’s not necessary for all sites - search engines will still crawl your site without it
Using it to block a search engine, or all search engines, is only an instruction - it can be easily ignored. Don’t use it to hide sensitive data
You can use it to tell search engines where your XML sitemap is located (or sitemaps, if you have more than one)
You can use it to prevent search engines crawling particular files or entire folders. You can specify to allow some, but not all search engines.
It doesn’t remove a page from Google’s search index if it’s already in there - though the page will no longer be crawled. It will show in the search results with: ‘This page was blocked with robots.txt” or similar line of text.
It can also be used to set a crawl delay to prevent some search engines from tying up your server resources by crawling your site too aggressively or using up bandwidth.