What is Robot.txt?

[StuartSpindlow]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is robot.txt.

[amandagrace]

A robots.txt file is a file at the root of your site that indicates those parts of your site you don't want accessed by search engine crawlers.

[amvoctelemarket]

Dont get confuse it with no follow. Robot txt is permanent No Crawl instruction to google. where ass no follow is put on individual internal/external link.

[RH-Calvin]

Robots.txt is a text file that is used to insert into your website containing information for search engine robots. The file contains list of webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.

[Sameer001]

Robots.txt is a text file that is used for crawler that insert into website and get containing information for search engine robots.

[Alanah_Rae]

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

[Livepro]

Robots.txt is a common name of a text file that is uploaded to a website's root directory and linked in the html code of the website. The file uses
the exclusion standard,which is a protocol with a small sets of commands that can be used to indicate access to your site by section and specific kind of web crawlers.

[Angel10]

The robots.txt file as instructions on where they are allowed to crawl (visit) and index (save) on the search engine results.*****Robots.txt*****files are useful: If you want search engines to ignore any duplicate pages on your website.

[rashikasaxena]

Robot txt is the text file that will be used to crawl or indexing of the websites.

[rahhulkiumar]

Robots.txt is a text file which inform search engine spiders how to crawl and index your website’s pages. Search engines want to index as much high quality info as they can and will adopt that they can crawl all unless you tell them.

[tanhdavid]

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. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

[Jessica1501111]

Robot.txt contains all the details about the webpages of website. It tells the search engine how to crawl your website

[Rajdeep Bose]

Robots.txt" is a regular text file that through its name, has special meaning to the majority of "honorable" robots on the web. By defining a few rules in this text file, you can instruct robots to not crawl and index certain files, directories within your site, or at all.

[williamstinner]

Robots.txt file is use to tell the Google spider to which page has to crawled or not by allowing or disallowing.

[stuartspindlow2]

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

[web designer57]

The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.

[webdesign123]

The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.

[sadianisar]

Robots.txt is a notepad file in which we write commands for crawler to stop it from visiting the pages mentioned in the codes. It is very important in SEO.

[moglix]

Robots.txt is the file used to control the web-pages from being crawled by major search engine.
For controlling you have to use proper syntax supported by robots.txt file.
This is the most powerful and important way to manage your website's crawling and indexing status.

[Bluesky94]

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. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.