Robots.txt

[leenajose]

What is the purpose of robots.txt file? why should we upload this file to root directory?

[Jessica Walter]

Robots.txt file helps search engines to know, which pages of the website need to be crawled. It is the first file Google looks for before crawling any page of your website.

If you don't particular page of the website to be crawled, you can mention it in the robots.txt file. It's advisable to also mention the sitemap path in the Robots.txt file.

[KevinJosph]

Search engines will look for a robots.txt file at the root of your domain whenever they crawl your website. Please note that a separate robots.txt file will need to be configured for each subdomain and for other protocols.

[RH-Calvin]

Robots.txt is a text file that instructs search engine to crawl and to restrict certain webpages from crawling. It is way to control the crawling of your website.

[seojennifer]

Robots.txt is a text file that instructs search engine to crawl and to restrict certain webpages from crawling. It is way to control the crawling of your website.

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[Roshini]

to instruct the google to crawl your website preferred pages

[NAVYA]

Robots.txt files helps the search engine to know, which pages need to be crawled.

[SusanJohnson3]

robots.txt is the best method to block a page to search engine.

[chrissmith]

Robots.txt is very important file for any website. It has set of rules for search engine crawlers. You can create rules to allow or disallow to crawl your website.

[clorent]

robot.txt is important for crawling.

[benben1]

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.You can run successfully your website without a robots.txt file. 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.

[angeljoe]

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

[vino]

Web site owners use 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.

[Marc65]

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

[shilparawat]

Robot.txt is a file and which is used to allow and dissallow the robot of our site.
robot.txt is part of on-page seo and it is more impact for the site.