What is Robots.txt?

[MilesGeek]

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.

[Brackwom]

Robot .txt uses for website to tell web robots which page they should crawl on your website, not just only this they also give command to web robot which page they should not crawl and not need to add in their data base.

[Smith_euk]

Hello,

A robots.txt is a text file that are created in the root directory of your website. It gives search engines crawlers instructions as to which pages they can crawl and index, during the crawling and indexing process.
You can check your robots.txt file: domain name/robots.txt

[hostguy]

Robots.txt file is used to give permission bots to crawl your website.
Its a text file in which we can allow Yahoo, Google, MSN to crawl our website. You can allow or disallow bots in robots.txt file. I followed this article to know more about robots.txt file.

[Dhwani]

Robots.txt is a text file. In which website owner can declare they want to crawl them website on google or not? Or they can allow and disallow links of them website.

[Petson10]

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

[TorillWenche]

A robots. txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google.

[Ravina123]

A robots. txt file tells search engine crawlers which pages or files the crawler can or can't request from your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google.

[miawilson]

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

[andrewwillson]

The robots avoidance standard, otherwise called the robots prohibition convention or basically robots.txt, is a standard utilized by sites to speak with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard indicates how to advise the web robot about which spaces of the site ought not to be prepared or filtered.

[vrutika talawanekar]

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.

[purnimabiswas]

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[Ravina123]

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. txt file. The asterisk after “user-agent” means that the robots.

[MilesGeek]

Robots.txt is a file that gives instructions to the search engine bot about where it can or can’t go on a website.

So every time Google bot crawl a website it looks for the robot.txt file. Before entering into website the bot searches the instruction manual which is in the robot.txt file.

[spartikMax]

Gives instructions to search robots which pages of the site should not be crawled.