what is robots.txt file?

[agnipestcontrol]

robots.txt file:
Robots.txt is a text file that is inserted into your website and contains information for search engine robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.

 

[RH-Calvin]

Robots.txt is a text file that lists webpages which contain instructions for search engines robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.

 

[benedict]

Robots.txt is a text file that lists webpages which contain instructions for search engines robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.

 

[dombowkett]

Robots.txt is set of instructions that help in search engine indexing.

 

[MVM Infotech]

The robots.txt file is important. 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 craw

 

[sanketkumaar]

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.

 

[arindamdutta16]

Robots is a catch all term for programs and automated scripts that crawl through the web and collect data from websites and anything else on the Internet that they can find. It is great when search engines frequently visit your site and index your content but often there are cases when indexing parts of your online content is not what you want.

 

[activesystem]

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl & index pages on their website.

 

[amar495]

Robots.txt or robots exclusion standard is a text file that tell the web crawlers to crawl or not to crawl your site

 

[davidweb09]

Robots.txt file are used to instruct search engine for quick indexing. cadoribrand.net

 

[priya1110]

A robots.text file that is used to block any file, category, tags or page on the website in Google. If you don't want to index any page in Google then use the robots.txt file. It is very helpful and most used technique in SEO field.

 

[sadianisar]

In SEO, robots.txt is a file that contains the instructions for web crawler to not visit and index the link or web page mentioned by website owner.

 

[YuanLee]

"Before a search engine crawls your site, it will look at your robots.txt file as instructions on where they are allowed to crawl (visit) and index (save) on the search engine results. Robots.txt files are useful: If you want search engines to ignore any duplicate pages on your website." Basically, robots.txt is intended for bots.