What is robots.txt?

[sarita670]

What is robots.txt?

[neelseowork]

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl & index pages on their website.

[eCommerceChamp]

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.

[NoahKlindon]

The robots.txt record is principally used to determine which parts of your site ought to be crawled by spiders or web crawlers.

[ShriBalaJiUdyog]

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[deepaksh]

Robots.txt is a text file created by a webmaster to indicate how a web robot (usually a search engine robot) crawls a web page on its website.

[Saravanan28]

A robots.txt shows which pages or files the Googlebot can or can't request from a website. Webmasters usually use this method to avoid overloading the website with requests.

[RH-Calvin]

Robots.txt is a text file that lists webpages which contain instructions for search engines robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.

[himanshu]

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

[dombowkett]

Robots.txt is best way to control your website search engine indexing from Googlebot.

[riya]

Robot.txt is a file to crawl & index pages on their website.

[Mithzi Rai]

A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site.

[HosTechS]

Robots.txt file is at the root of the website that involves sectors of your website you don’t want to be attained by search engine crawlers. Webmasters use a robot.txt file to instruct the search engine robots on how to crawl & index the web pages.

[amarnathsmm]

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.

[HeavenlyBorn]

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

[SKS]

It is the simple text file placed in the root folder of the website to restrict the search engine crawlers to crawl the website or the particular webpage, directory or folder.

[Saravanan28]

A robots.txt shows which pages or files the Googlebot can or can't request from a website. Webmasters usually use this method to avoid overloading the website with requests.

[godwin]

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.

[nancy07]

The robots.txt file is a text file that tells bots which pages on your site to be indexed or crawled and which pages are not to be crawled. The file is mainly used to avoid overloading your site with requests.

[sophiawils59]

Enough answers are given, I think @admin should close the thread now!!

[itznehamali]

robots.txt is the extention that used for crawler to stop or crawl your website.

[SmithaKumari]

The robots.txt file is primarily used to specify which parts of your website should be crawled by spiders or web crawlers.

[juliaalan]

Robots.txt is a file associated with your website used to ask different web crawlers to crawl or not crawl portions of your website.

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