What is disallow in robots.txt file?

[rscomponentseo]

What is disallow in robots.txt file?

[PoolMaster]

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.

[ferriesthai]

The second line in any square of directives is the Disallow line. You can have at least one of these lines, indicating parts of the site the predefined arachnid can’t get to. A purge Disallow line means you’re not disallowing anything, so fundamentally it implies that spider can get to all areas of your site.

User agent: *

Disallow:/

The case above would obstruct all search engines that “tune in” to robots.txt from crawling your site.

User agent: *

Disallow:

The case above would, with just a single character less, allow all search engines to crawl your whole site.

[Rscomp]

It is an instruction to the Search Engine to prevent (restrict) accessing of specific pages or directories.

[imriakapoor]

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.

[fisherinjurylaw]

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.

[RH-Calvin]

Disallow states that the webpages listed are restricted from search engine crawling.

[vijayshah1140]

It is the instruction for search engine bot to not the crawl specific page of that website.