What Is Robot.txt?

A 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. 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).
 
Robots.txt is a text file that is inserted into your website to contain instructions for search engine spiders. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.
 
Robots.txt is a text file that is inserted into your website to contain instructions for search engine spiders. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.
 
Robots.txt is a text file that is always located in your web server's root directory. It contains a set of instructions for search engine crawler bots on how to crawl and index the content of your website pages.

Before a search engine crawls your website, it will look at your robots.txt file that defines some rules for search engine spiders (robots) on what to follow and what not to. It is an important file and can result in good ranking if used properly. So everyone should add this file in their website's root directory.
 
Robots.txt is a text file which helps to search engines that which URL's are allowed to crawled, indexed and which url's are not allowed to crawled. These are helps to protect important web pages in the website from hackers.
 
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.
 
Back
Top