what is the robot.txt

[james123]

Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

 

[jenerous]

If you don't want to crawl your file you put the Robot.txt. So search engine doesn't going to crawl that file.

 

[seo]

robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots how to crawl and index pages on their website.

 

[dineshacservice]

Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.

 

[Dipika]

Robots.txt*is a text file that is uploaded to a Web site's root directory and linked in the html code of the Web site

 

[huongxd3]

Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

 

[Jennifer Martin]

what is the robots.txt. and what is the advantage of robots.txt

Robots.txt is a root file of your site that indicates, which section of your website will be crawled and which not to be accessed by search engine crawlers. If not Robots.txt you can add robots tag in the website. The only difference between Robots.txt file and Robots tag is tag need to be added in the each and every page and txt file is added in the root of the website.

 

[cordtec]

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.

 

[Liyans]

It is used for Crawling a websites.

 

[vanloimmo]

e robots.txt file is one of the primary ways of telling a search engine where it can and can’t go on your website.

 

[MyBae]

The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.

 

[Goldysoni]

robot.txt is used to detect the robots for the site.

 

[online training]

The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.