What is Robots.txt?

[ArkPresentation]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is robots.txt.

[virginoilseom]

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 "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.

[daikaads]

Robots Txt is an HTML attribute that is used to inform the search engines not to crawl and index the web pages in the website.

[veraajverma]

Robots.txt is a file to give instructions to web robots about the website crawling; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.

[wellliving]

It is Robot txt and this means that there are certain places on the website where there is personal information and in these places customers are not allowed to go so in this case robot txt is used

[24x7servermanag]

Robot.txt is used to crawl the pages website. It tells that which part of the area should not be accessed. We can define the pages which should not be accessed by putting the disallow tag in robot.txt. Those disallow pages are restricted to visit. It also help to index the web content.

[manisha.arr]

robots.txt file is used to give instruction to the bots that crawl the website.

[alliecandy]

The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.

[farazz]

robot.txt is a file which let you communicate between the web crawler and website...in the way of telling which web pages to be crawled and which not to be

[ajay49560]

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[mikerock]

Robots.txt is a test file uploaded at the root of any website. It is used to allow or block URLs of the website to be crawled by different search engine. We need to follow a set protocol prescribed by robots.txt community

[Paul0130]

A txt file that gives instructions to web crawlers what to do.

[davidweb09]

Robots.txt file have set of rules that are used to send instructions to search engine bots while indexing the website.

[bessieexum]

Robot.txt is utilized to crawl the webpage internet site. It informs. We can specify the pages that must not be obtained by putting the disallow label in robot.txt. Those disallow pages have been limited to see. Additionally, it help index the internet content.

[ashishbansal]

It’s a file that instructs search engines how to crawl a website.

It’s not necessary for all sites - search engines will still crawl your site without it
Using it to block a search engine, or all search engines, is only an instruction - it can be easily ignored. Don’t use it to hide sensitive data
You can use it to tell search engines where your XML sitemap is located (or sitemaps, if you have more than one)
You can use it to prevent search engines crawling particular files or entire folders. You can specify to allow some, but not all search engines.
It doesn’t remove a page from Google’s search index if it’s already in there - though the page will no longer be crawled. It will show in the search results with: ‘This page was blocked with robots.txt” or similar line of text.
It can also be used to set a crawl delay to prevent some search engines from tying up your server resources by crawling your site too aggressively or using up bandwidth.

[riprook7]

Robots.txt file have set of rules that are used to send instructions to search engine bots while indexing the website.

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[pharmasecure]

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.

[gautamsharma]

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[John_cote]

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters build to advise web robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl pages on the website. The robots.txt file is the piece of the robots exclusion protocol (REP), an association of web standards that regulate how robots crawl the web, access, and index content, and serve that content up to users.Robots.txt is by no means compulsory for search engines but commonly, search engines observe what they are demand not to do.

[wiztech]

Robots.txt is a file on a website that instructs search engine crawlers which parts of the site should not be accessed by search engine bot programs. Robots.txt is a plaintext file but uses special commands and syntax for webcrawlers. Though not officially standardized, robots.txt is generally followed by all search engines.

[dombowkett]

Search engine bots index the website according to the robots.txt instructions.

[tamilselvi]

Robots.txt is a content record website admins make to teach web robots (ordinarily web crawler robots) how to slither pages on their site.

[mikebibby]

robot.txt is used to instruct google and other search engine bots which file you have indexed or crawled and vice versa so we use robot.txt to give instruction and stop from unusual crawling

[mikebibby]

Thanks for sharing this information and robot.txt we basically use to give instruction google and other Bot

[Jasminecynthia]

Robot.txt is utilized to crawl the webpage internet site. It informs. We can specify the pages that must not be obtained by putting the disallow label in robot.txt. Those disallow pages have been limited to see. Additionally, it help index the internet content.

[kajal351]

The robots.txt (https://ibrand.crbtech.in/sem-ppc/) file is primarily used to specify which parts of your website should be crawled by spiders or crawlers. Googlebot, bingbot are the examples of a web spider. Spider look for this file in host directory.

[Wiztechplc]

A robot.txt file is a file at the root of your site that indicates those parts of your site you do not want to be accessed by search engine crawlers. The file uses the Robots Exclusion Standard, which is a protocol with a small set of commands that can be used to indicate access to your site by section and by specific kinds of web crawlers (such as mobile crawlers vs desktop crawlers).

[kanagaseo]

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.