What are Robots in SEO ?

[nicksmiths]

Robots.txt file is very important for every website it tells the search engine crawler which URL the crawler can access on your site.

[GeethaN]

The robots. txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl. Let's say a search engine is about to visit a site.

[VanessaJacobs]

I think this file name that controls the crawler to visit your that page of website which is under programing

Robots.txt file tells search engines how to crawl your website which makes it an incredibly powerful SEO tool.

[Dynapro]

The robots. txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl. Let's say a search engine is about to visit a site.

[pharmasecure]

It determines if and when the search engine crawlers can visit a website’s subpages and include them in their index. In doing this, certain subpages can be excluded from the search results.Robots.txt file is a text file that can be saved to a website’s server.

[Hemanath]

The robots. txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl. Let's say a search engine is about to visit a site.

[GeethaN]

The robots. txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl. Let's say a search engine is about to visit a site.

[aasthabeauty]

Robots.txt is a text file. It is an instruction file created for web robots by webmasters. It tells the web robots which pages of a website to crawl and which do not.

The basic format of a robots.txt file is:
User-agent: [user-agent name]

Disallow: [URL string not to be crawled]

Robots.txt files are useful:

If you want search engines to ignore any duplicate pages on your website
If you don’t want search engines to index your internal search results pages
If you don’t want search engines to index certain areas of your website or a whole website
If you don’t want search engines to index certain files on your website (images, PDFs, etc.)
If you want to tell search engines where your sitemap is located

[_sha]

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct web robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl pages on their website. The robots.txt file is part of the the robots exclusion protocol (REP), a group of web standards that regulate how robots crawl the web, access and index content, and serve that content up to users. The REP also includes directives like meta robots, as well as page-, subdirectory-, or site-wide instructions for how search engines should treat links (such as “follow” or “nofollow”).