Difference between Sitemap and robot.txt?

Sitemap is a collection of pages in a web site accessible to crawlers or users.

Robot - It contains information about which pages to crawl and what to index.
 
A site map is like the table of contents for your site... It provides search engines with a direct path to each page of your site, which favors quick indexing for all the pages.

On the other hand, robots.txt is typically used to tell search engines to exclude from the index a specific page or folder of your site.
 
Sitemap is a directory tree of your website pages. Creating and submitting it in webmaster tool helps to index your webpages faster in search engines. Robots.txt is a text file used to instruct search engine spiders to crawl and not to crawl certain webpages.
 
Robots.txt is a standard file used by websites/blogs to communicate with web crawlers

XML sitemap is a document that helps google and other search engines better understand about your website while crawling
 
A sitemap is the way to tell the Google or any other search engine about all the important pages of the site, which might not to be discovered.
Robots.txt is a text (no html) file to tell the search bots which page you would like him not to visit. The time boys come to your site first he look for robots. Text file, if he doesn't find robots on your site, then he feels free to crawl the site.
 
A site map is like the table of contents for your site... It provides search engines with a direct path to each page of your site, which favors quick indexing for all the pages.
robots.txt is typically used to tell search engines to exclude from the index a specific page or folder of your site.
 
Sitemap file is a bundle of webpages link including PDFs and sometimes image links also, that helps search engine crawler to crawl all the webpages easily and using Robot.txt files manipulate search engine crawler to indexing a webpage or not.
 
A robots.txt record is a content document in a straightforward arrangement which offers data to web robots, (for example, web index arachnids) about which parts of your site they are and aren't permitted to visit.

On the off chance that you don't have a robots.txt then a web robots will expect that they can go anyplace on your webpage. This straightforward robots.txt permits robots access to anyplace on your site. The main preference of having one of these 'permit all' robots.txt is to stop you getting 404 blunders in your log documents when the bugs can't discover your robots.txt.

While robots.txt documents are typically used to request that robots evade a specific piece of your site, a sitemap is utilized to give the robot a rundown of pages that it is welcome to visit.

By giving the web crawler a sitemap you can (ideally) expand the quantity of pages that it records. And in addition telling the web index the URLs of your pages, the sitemap can likewise tell the robots when the page was last altered, the pages need, and how regularly the page is prone to be redesigned.
 
robots.txt file is a file at the root of your site that indicates those parts of your site you don’t want accessed by search engine crawlers and A site map is an XML file that lists Urls for a site along with additional metatags about each Url.



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Sitemaps(.xml or .html) inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Then changes will be indexed faster compared to when you don't have sitemap.
Robots.txt(.txt) used to tell search engines robots that what page you want to allow or disallow to be indexed.
 
A site map is a kind of interactive table of contents, in which each listed item links directly to its counterpart sections of the Web site.

Robot.txt is a file which contains information about which pages should be crawled.
 
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