What is the importance of robot.txt in SEO?

[vashilove]

Hello,
What is the importance of robot.txt in SEO?

 

[brandmedia]

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.

 

[Neo_5678]

A robots.txt is a text file that resides in the root directory of your website and gives search engines crawlers instructions as to which pages they can crawl and index, during the crawling and indexing process.

 

[pharmasecure]

Robot.txt is useful to disallow crawlers to crawl your page, you can set the pages you dont want to crawl. And site map is useful to tell robots about your webpages and their connections.

 

[amar495]

Robots.txt instructs the web crawlers to crawl the webpages you want and can add disallow to certain webpages to avoid indexing.

 

[chiragm984]

The robots.txt file is a simple text file placed on your web server which tells webcrawlers like Googlebot if they should access a page or not.

 

[nikki shah]

Robots.txt file is what tells the search engines which pages to access and index on your website on which pages not to.

 

[archanaluthra]

The robots.txt file, also known as a robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots which pages on your website to scan. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl.

 

[dombowkett]

Robots.txt instruct search engine that either a webpage should be indexed or not.