What is the use of Robots.txt?

[ankitasharma123]

Hello friends,

What is the use of Robots.txt?

 

[Aniketsingh]

Robots.txt is a text file that is uploaded to a website's root directory and linked in the html code of the website. The robots.txt file used to provide instructions about the website to the web robots and Spiders.

 

[Manchun Kumar]

robots.txt is file to control the search engine bot from indexing and nofollow.

 

[ShreyaKoushik23]

Use of Robots.txt - The most common usage of Robots.txt is to ban crawlers from visiting private folders or content that gives them no additional information.

Robots.txt Allowing Access to Specific Crawlers.
Allow everything apart from certain patterns of URLs.

 

[Pillars]

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.

 

[nidhitiwari]

Robot.txt file is a simple text file which is added by the website owners. It tells the search engine bots which web page or portion to crawl and which one to ignore.

 

[sadianisar]

It is useful for SEO of your website. robots.txt is a file in which we instruct crawler to not crawl/visit the pages which we do not want crawler to.. 2 codes are used like User-agent and Disallow.

 

[SEONinja]

Robots.txt is most useful for seo purpose, because robots.txt provide all information about the site which page index or not by crawler. and also provide the site structure with the help of sitemap.

 

[ewebac]

Robots file is for the search engine which guide the bot which part of the website to be crawled and which part nee to skip..

 

[colourprinting]

robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots.

 

[mohammad farhan]

Robots.txt:- It is incredible when web crawlers habitually visit your webpage and record your substance yet frequently there are situations when indexing parts of your online substance are not what you need. Case in point, in the event that you have two forms of a page (one for the survey in the program and one for printing), you'd rather have the printing rendition prohibited from creeping, else you hazard being forced a copy content punishment. Likewise, on the off chance that you happen to have delicate information on your site that you don't need the world to see, you will likewise favor that web indexes don't file these pages (despite the fact that for this situation the main beyond any doubt route for not indexing touchy information is to keep it logged off on a different machine).

 

[samir09]

Use our Robots.txt analyzer to analyze your robots.txt file today. Google also ... Google and Microsoft's Bing allow the use of wildcards in robots.txt files.

 

[rajdeep]

Robots.txt is a file through which you can guide search engines to crawl or not to crawl certain sections of your website.

 

[jaysh4922]

robots.txt file is not required.That is not to say the robots.txt file isn't useful. You can use it to control which pages the search engines should not crawl, which can be very useful for duplicate content and SEO purposes. There are many useful uses with the robots.txt. But it is not a required element for ranking well.

 

[amitkedia]

Site proprietors utilize the robots.txt document to give directions about their website to web robots; this is known as The Robots Exclusion Protocol. The "Client operator" implies this area applies to all robots. The "Refuse" tells the robot that it ought not visit any pages on the site.

 

[1991SamMC]

Robot.txt is added when you do not want the search engine to crawl through certain pages, you are essentially telling the robot "Do not crawl this page" robot.txt is predominantly used in login pages where there is a high chance of accessing confidential information, which is something most websites want to avoid.

 

[Kundan Kumar]

to control the search engine bot. which page is allow to index and which pages is not allow to index.

 

[Ritika Patel]

When you need some changes in your website without showing online then robot.txt is the best option. This tag stop the search engines to crawling the website.

 

[andamannicobar]

The /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol. 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.