What is robot.txt in Seo?

[maharanacab]

Hello,
What is robot.txt in Seo?

[neelseowork]

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What is robot.txt in Seo?


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What is the importance of robot.txt in Seo?

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[John-Smith]

First of all, it is robots.txt and not the "robot.txt"

The robots.txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl.

[vinukum]

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct web robots then how to crawl pages on their website. The robots.txt file is part of the the robots exclusion protocol (REP), a group of web standards that regulate how robots crawl the web, access and index content, and serve that content up to users.
Basic format:
User-agent: [user-agent name]
Disallow: [URL string not to be crawled]

[johnmart]

Robots.txt is a text file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. It is the part of the robots exclusion protocol (REP) that regulate how robots crawl the web access and index page content and serve that content to end users.

[webxerossolutions]

Robots.txt file contains the set of instructions which are given to search bots and search crawlers. These instructions are given to let search bots know that which links or pages should not be indexed or which links or pages should be indexed. With the use of robots.txt we can hide some webpages or a complete website from search engines.

[Jessicad0505]

A robots.txt file gives instructions to web robots about the pages the website owner doesn’t wish to be ‘crawled’. For instance, if you didn’t want your images to be listed by Google and other search engines, you’d block them using your robots.txt file.

[efusionworld]

Robots.txt file is a text file for restricting bots from a website or certain pages on the website. Using a robots.txt file and with a disallow direction, we can restrict bots or search engine crawling program from websites and or from certain folders and files.

[searchenginewings]

Robots.txt is a text file created to guide search engine bots where to crawl and not to crawl on your site. First, search engines bots follow the instruction on your Robots.txt file when they come to your site.

[davidweb09]

Robots.txt file have set of instructions that guide search engine for website indexing.

[webdesignindelhi]

he 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. .

[hibirdcycle]

Search engines use bots called “spiders” that crawl the internet and identify which pages on a website can be indexed. Indexed pages will contribute to your Google rankings but any pages that you configured as non-indexed won’t contribute (there are actually some benefits to this).

[RH-Calvin]

Robots.txt is a text file that lists webpages which contain instructions for search engines robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.