What is robots.txt?

[HeavenlyBorn]

What is robots.txt?

[amarnathsmm]

Anyhow, the robots.txt file is where there's a difference between the robots.txt file and the noindex meta tag. The robots.txt file tells the search engines to not crawl a particular URL (or page) on the website. ... But, they don't have permission (via the robots.txt file) to “CRAWL” the page

[eCommerceChamp]

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

[Saravanan28]

Robots.txt file is a text file for restricting bots (robots, search engine crawlers ) from a website or certain pages on the website. 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.

[vijayshah1140]

Robots.txt is a file associated with your website used to ask different web crawlers to crawl or not crawl portions of your website. The robots.txt file is primarily used to specify which pages of your website should be crawled by spiders or web crawlers.

[mollierhodes]

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. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize websites.

[phoenixtax]

To prevent most search engine web crawlers from indexing a page on your site, place the following meta tag meta name="robots" content="noindex">

[Mithzi Rai]

What is robots.txt?

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

[godwin]

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.

[LawrenceNetto]

What is robots.txt?

Robots.txt is a text file in the root of hosting, which specifies which folder has to be blocked for indexing.

[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.