What is Robots.txt?

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  1. Stephen Johnson

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    I heard a lot about Robots.txt file and also try to search on internet about that but unable to get concept.

    Can anyone explain me about it?

    Thank you in advance.
     
  2. cloud

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    It is great when search engines frequently visit your site and index your content but often there are cases when indexing parts of your online content is not what you want. For instance, if you have two versions of a page (one for viewing in the browser and one for printing), you'd rather have the printing version excluded from crawling, otherwise you risk being imposed a duplicate content penalty.
     
  3. mariajhonson

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    Robot.txt file is used to tell the search engine that which file and folders dosenot allow to visit.
     
  4. amisha

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    Hi everyone,
    A file which sits in the root of a site and tells search engines which files not to crawl. Some search engines will still list your URLs as URL only listings even if you block them using a robots.txt file.:)
     
  5. ashimasalim

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    Robot.txt is a text file to tell the search engine which are to be crawled in your site...

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  6. prop tiger

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    Robots.txt is a regular text file that through its name, has special meaning to the
    majority of honorable robots on the web.
     
  7. BoldMind

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    Robots.txt is a plain-text file that a Web publisher should put in the root directory of their website. The instructions that tell indexing spiders what content on that website they may, or may not, look at.
     
  8. piyushaegis

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    Robots.txt file is important for any search engine because any search engine's robot first goes to your website's robots.txt file, while open link from search results.
     
  9. Justin Thomson

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    Robot. txt is one of promising feature of On page. It indicates to search engine bots about which locations of regarding sites are not allowed to visit.
     
  10. vimal kumar

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    Robots.txt is a text file which tells the search robots which part of the website is not crawled.
     
  11. roger mark

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    it's text file where instructs the search engine which page to crawl the site.
     
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  12. themepure

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    Robots.txt decides which folder or a file to be viewed and which should not..
     
  13. jeeva321

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    Robots.txt is the text file to crawl all websites updates frequently all search engines
     
  14. jammesscot

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    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.
     
  15. annywatson

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    It is great when search engines frequently visit your site and index your content but often there are cases when indexing parts of your online content is not what you want.

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    It is not the rule or protocol but it is believed that if your site has a robots.txt file then crawler will follow the instructions that is mentioned in the file for crawling a website's pages.
     
  17. semaphore.v

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    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.
     
  18. StevenJohnson

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    Robots.txt is a text file which is primarily put in the root directory of a website. This file is made for Google or other search engine robots. In this file a short codes of few lines are coded which tells the robot that which page of the website is to be crawled.
     
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    Thanks to all . I learned many things about Robots.txt.
     
  20. subin

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    Robots.txt is the file to crawl all web pages faster to index them all search engines.
     

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