What Is Robots.Txt?

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What Is Robots.Txt?

[pharmasecure]

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.

[rscomponentseo]

Robots.txt is a text file that you add to your site that tells the search engines what pages you don’t want them to visit.

[raheel]

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.

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[Ravina97]

The robots.txt file, also called the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a document that tells internet robots (most usually search engines) which pages on your website to crawl. It also tells internet robots which pages not to crawl. The slash after “Disallow” tells the robot to not visit any pages on the website.

[yuva12]

Robots.txt file is very important. Using a robots.txt file and with a disallow direction, we can restrict bots or search engine crawling program from websites and or from certain folders and files.

[Jessicad0505]

Robots.txt is used primarily to manage crawler traffic to your site, and occasionally to keep a page off Google, depending on the file type. Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct web robots how to crawl pages on their website. The robots.txt file is part of the the robots exclusion protocol (REP), a group of web standards that regulate how robots crawl the web, access and index content, and serve that content up to users.
Basic format of the robot.txt file.
User-agent: [user-agent name]
Disallow: [URL string not to be crawled]

[Snehap23]

It prevents the webpage to get crawl by the crawler, some webpages like credentials prevent from crawlers by using Robots.txt file