What Is Use Of Robots.txt File?

[Taylor Minaj]

What is use of robots.txt file? in SEO

[daniel park]

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:

[Taylor Minaj]

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:


Thanks for sharing information...!

[onlineuae]

Web site holders use the /robots.txt file to give orders about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Barring Protocol. The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not appointment any pages on the site.

[veraajverma]

Robots.txt file is used to grant permission or block access of crawling of webpages for crawler. We can specify the pages which we do not want to crawl by crawler.

[RajeshThummar]

As per the guideline of MOZ "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."

[onlineuae]

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give advises about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Barring Protocol. The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not appointment any pages on the site.

[ShreyaKoushik]

Use of Robots.txt - The most common usage of Robots.txt is to ban crawlers from visiting private folders or content that gives them no additional information.

Robots.txt Allowing Access to Specific Crawlers.
Allow everything apart from certain patterns of URLs.

[sadianisar]

robots.txt is a notepad file in which we write commands or instruct web crawlers to not visit the webpage which we do not want it to.

User-agent:*
Disallow:

These two codes are used in robots.txt

[Taylor Minaj]

thanks to all for sharing useful information.

[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.

[deepakrajput]

Robots.txt file in SEO help to control your site indexing by Google.

[roy854]

Robot.txt file is a text file placed on your web server which defines the web crawler whether they should access a page or not.

[Nilima98]

Robots.txt is a text file located in the site’s root directory that specifies for search engines’ crawlers and spiders what website pages and files you want or don’t want them to visit.

[salenaadam]

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.

[Educaindia2]

It is used to control your site Indexing.

[jackar56]

robots.txt file is use for control search engine bot for indexing, cache and other

[Fadia Sheetal]

Robots.txt is a text file. It give instruction to web crawler or robots which web page should visit or not.

[Nirala]

robots.txt file is used to give the instruction to the search engines bots for crawling the website or webpage.

[TravelOTAs]

If you want to hide some sensitive information related your website then you can do this by robots.txt.