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Kaillymartin
12-20-2016, 07:34 AM
Hello Everyone!

What Is Robots.txt? please share your opinion

kunalkumar
12-20-2016, 07:45 AM
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.

luffy268
12-20-2016, 09:43 PM
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.

Liyanscom3
12-21-2016, 01:08 AM
Nice Info keep it up.

ShreyaKoushik
12-21-2016, 02:12 AM
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.