Does robots.txt affect how my links are seen by Google?

[makoo]

Does robots.txt affect how my links are seen by Google?

[Dynapro]

While Google won't crawl or index the content blocked by robots. txt , we might still find and index a disallowed URL if it is linked from other places on the web.

[chandrao7]

txt , we might still find and index a disallowed URL if it is linked from other places on the web. As a result, the URL address and, potentially, other publicly available information such as anchor text in links to the page can still appear in Google search results.

[jayam]

Google officially announced that GoogleBot will no longer obey a Robots. txt directive related to indexing. Publishers relying on the robots. txt noindex directive have until September 1, 2019 to remove it and begin using an alternative

[jayammrg]

txt file does not exist. This means that crawlers will generally assume that they can crawl all URLs of the website. In order to block crawling of the website, the robots.

[godwin]

txt , we might still find and index a disallowed URL if it is linked from other places on the web. As a result, the URL address and, potentially, other publicly available information such as anchor text in links to the page can still appear in Google search results.