What is the major use of Robots.txt?

[ShreyaKoushik]

What is the major use of Robots.txt?

[alex.thomson]

You might be surprised to hear that one small text file, known as robots.txt, could be the downfall of your website. If you get the file wrong you could end up telling search engine robots not to crawl your site, meaning your web pages won’t appear in the search results. Therefore, it’s important that you understand the purpose of a robots.txt file and learn how to check you’re using it correctly.

[raheel]

Robots.txt is the text file that is created to instruct crawler how to crawl website or index.

[davidweb09]

Robots.txt control your site indexing.

[jayashree-marg]

The robots.txt file is a simple text file placed on your web server which tells webcrawlers like Googlebot if they should access a file or not.

[Rajdeep Bose]

Robots.txt is the text file that is mostly used to instruct search engine which page should be crawled and which shouldn't be crawled.

[Raghavendraastr]

Robots.txt file is control your website index and informer for all search engines

[samant]

A robots.txt file is a text file that stops web crawler software, such as Googlebot, from crawling certain pages of your site.

[somidiscount]

The major use of robot.txt is allow and disallow the crawler of the site and it is best option for controlling the crawler of your site.

[redspiderae]

The robot that Google uses to index their search engine is called Googlebot. It understands a few more instructions than other robots. In addition to "User-name" and "Disallow" Googlebot also uses the Allow instruction.

[dennis123]

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.

[Rammadhur]

Robot.txt: It is a text file( not the HTML) that gives instructions to web robots about the page when the website owner is not interested in crawling the page.

[vishalesskay]

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. There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt: robots can ignore your /robots.txt.