In the robots.txt file, what does the “Disallow:” line do?

[Dynapro]

In the robots.txt file, what does the “Disallow:” line do?

[jayam]

txt file applies to all web robots that visit the site. The slash after “Disallow” tells the robot to not visit any pages on the site. You might be wondering why anyone would want to stop web robots from visiting their site.

[jayammrg]

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 "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.

[chandrao7]

txt file contains information about how the search engine should crawl, the information found there will instruct further crawler action on this particular site. If the robots. txt file does not contain any directives that disallow a user-agent's activity (or if the site doesn't have a robots.

[makoo]

Hello,

Pages that you disallow in your robots.txt file won’t be indexed, and spiders won’t crawl them either.

[davidweb09]

We use disavow function to de-index those webpages which is not required for ranking. https://bit.ly/2Vu6Dhm

[dennis123]

Tells the robot what URLs not to scan on the website.