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.
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ankitakumari 0 Newbie Poster
Being a SEO executive, you should be aware of this simple and important thing.
Robots is generally a .txt files that indicate whether certain user agents (web-crawling software) can or cannot crawl pages of a website.
If you want to learn more, you can search internet for more detailed information.
jamesbrown93776 -3 Newbie Poster Banned
Robot txt is a part of REP. It tells search engine spiders to not crawl certain pages or sections of a website.
Gennry 0 Newbie Poster
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.
katebonner 0 Newbie Poster
These tags are needed to guide Google's daily routine when searching for a new page. They are important because:
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They help improve crawl budgets, as Spider will only review what is really appropriate and make the best use of its time crawling the page. An example of a page you don't want Google to search for is a "thank you page."
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Robots.tst file is a great way to force page index by pointing to pages.
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Robots.tts files control crawler access to certain areas of your site.
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They can save entire sections of a website, because you can create separate robots tax files for root domains. A good example is that you guessed it - of course the payment details page.
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You can also prevent internal search results pages from appearing on the SERPs.
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Robot.tst can hide files whose layout is not understood, such as PDFs or some images.
AidanSEO 0 Newbie Poster
As an SEO executive, you should know what robots.txt and how to create one.
But to the point, robots.txt is a file that tells search engine crawlers how to navigate their website. Essentially saying "you can crawl and index all parts of my website, but don't go here or here. Also, my sitemap is located here."
andrewflintoff 0 Newbie Poster
The robots. txt record, otherwise called the robots prohibition convention or standard, is a book document that tells web robots (frequently web indexes) which pages on your webpage to creep. It additionally advises web robots which pages not to creep. Suppose a web crawler is going to visit a website.
Rathi -4 Newbie Poster Banned
Robots.txt, it's a text file that tells to search engines which pages on your site to crawl and which pages not to crawl.
Example of robots.txt:
Basic robots.txt:
User-agent:*
Disallow:/
Wordpress robots.txt:
User-agent:*
Disallow:/wp-admin/
Allow:/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
bracknelson445
Open Notepad, and save the file as ‘robots,’ all lowercase, making sure to choose .txt as the file type extension. Next, add the following two lines of text to your file:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
User-agent is another word for robots or search engine spiders. The asterisk (*) denotes that this line applies to all of the spiders. Here, there is no file or folder listed in the Disallow line, implying that every directory on your site may be accessed. This is a basic robots text file.
Blocking the search engine spiders from your whole site is also one of the robots.txt options. To do this, add these two lines to the file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
satish159 0 Newbie Poster
Robots.txt very-very important for site point of SEO
A robots.txt file restriction of search engines where can go and can’t go on your site. Primarily, it lists all the content you want to lock away from search engines like Google. You can also tell some search engines (not Google) they can crawl allowed content.
Important note:-
1.Google isn’t one amongst those search engines. They conform the directions in a very robots.txt file.
2.Just recognize that some search engines ignore it utterly
Example:-
User-agent: Googlebot -it is use for not allow to googleboat to crowl your website
Disallow:
User-agent: * -it is use for all search engene boat or spider crowl anything your website.
Allow:
Naheedmir 53 Junior Poster in Training
In simple words, Robot meta tag is a special tag that is useful
in telling robots not to index the content of a page, and not to
scan it for links to follow.
Jasmin_2
Robots.txt is one way of telling the search engine bots about the web pages on your website which you do not want them to visit.
If you want to block all search engine(Google, Bing, Yahoo) robots from crawling your website, just put the following code,
user-agent : *
Disallow: \
If you want to block Google Bot from crawling website, just put the following code,
user-agent: Google Bot
Disallow: \
6Maxi 0 Newbie Poster
robots. txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site
pradeepmadgaonk -15 Newbie Poster
A robots. txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google.
ET -4 Newbie Poster Banned
With a robots.txt file, you can manage which files crawlers may access on your site. At the root of your website, you'll find a robots.txt file. The robots.txt file for www.example.com is located at www.example.com/robots.txt. The Robots Exclusion Standard is followed by robots.txt, which is a plain text file. One or more rules make up a robots.txt file. Each rule restricts or permits access to a specific file path on that website for a specific crawler. All files are implicitly allowed for crawling unless you declare differently in your robots.txt file. There are four steps to creating a robots.txt file and making it widely accessible and useful:
- Make a file with the name robots.txt.
- To the robots.txt file, add rules.
- The robots.txt file should be uploaded to your website.
- Check the robots.txt file for errors.
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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.
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moonlife447 -4 Light Poster
Robot.txt is only a text record. It is utilized to tell web crawlers not to record a few pages of a webpage.
hareemadil100 -8 Newbie Poster
Robots.txt is a file through which you can guide search engines to crawl or not to crawl certain sections of your website.
Gamerseo 12 Light Poster
What is such a robot needed for?
AccuWeb Hosting -20 Newbie Poster
A robots.txt file contains search engine directives. You can use it to
restrict search engines from crawling specific areas of your website and to provide search engines with helpful crawling tips. In SEO, the robots.txt is quite important.
Keep the following best practices in mind when using robots.txt:
- Be cautious when editing your robots.txt file: it can render large sections of your website unavailable to search engines.
- Your website robots.txt file should locate in the root directory (for example, http://www.example.com/robots.txt).
- The robots.txt file is only valid for the domain on which it is located as well as the protocol (HTTP or HTTPS).
- Different search engines have different interpretations of directories. The first matched directive always wins by default. Specificity, on the other hand, wins with Google and Bing.
- Whenever possible, avoid employing the crawl-delay directive for search engines.
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Brackwom_1 0 Newbie Poster Banned
The web crawler used by Google is known as Googlebot (Robot). Googlebot is the umbrella term for two sorts of crawlers: a desktop crawler that mimics a desktop user and a mobile crawler that mimics a user on a mobile device.
hareemadil100 -8 Newbie Poster
you can create robots.txt while using yoast SEO plugin at wordpress.
bessieexum 25 Junior Member
A robots. txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google.
david_249 0 Newbie Poster
A robots. txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google.it use to build their databases and access web pages, often using links to locate and link to other sites.
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