Robots.txt

[jaysh4922]

Robots.txt file is a special text file that is for eternity located in your Web server's root directory. Robots.txt file contains limits for Web Spiders, telling them where they have authorization to search. A Robots.txt is like significant rules for search engine spiders what to follow and what not to. Robots.txt file is a very important file if you want to have a good ranking on search engines.

 

[rajdeep]

Robots.txt is the text file that is mostly used to instruct search engine which page should be crawled and which shouldn't be crawled.

 

[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.

 

[ayurshopee]

Robot.txt is a text file to instruct to search engine crawler that which page is not to be crawl.

 

[sadianisar]

robots.txt is a notepad file in which we write commands to instruct crawlers that crawlers should not visit those webpages/website which we do not want it to. It is important for SEO purpose.

 

[ritikamehra]

Robot txt file is use to crawl the webpages of the website in the search engine from which the google can find out the relevant information for the users.

 

[davidweb09]

Robots.txt file gives instructions to Google crawlers for indexing the site.

 

[aegisinfoways]

Robots.txt file is a one text file. It is used to restrict some part of your site. If user doesn't want to crawl some parts of website or any URL or any folder so user can use disallow command in robots.txt file. So crawler doesn't crawl those part of site.

So, the purpose of the Robots.txt is to instruct crawler which part should be crawl and which shouldn't be crawl.

 

[Robertdsouza]

Robots.txt is a text file when a search engine crawls(indexes) your website, the first thing most of them look for is your robots.txt. It also may indicate the location of your XML sitemap. The search engine then sends its "bot" or "robot" or spider to crawl your site as directed in the robots.txt file.

 

[ShreyaKoushik23]

Use of Robots.txt - The most common usage of Robots.txt is to ban crawlers from visiting private folders or content that gives them no additional information.

Robots.txt Allowing Access to Specific Crawlers.
Allow everything apart from certain patterns of URLs.

 

[iambhevendra]

it is the text file to placed on server which contain a list of robots and disallows for those robots each disallow prevents any address that finds disallows strings from being accessed. If you cannot access your server's root location you will not be able to use a robots.txt file to exclude pages from your index.

 

[sandeepsharmag]

The robots.txt file is a general text file placed on your website's root which tells webcrawlers like Googlebot if they should access a file or not.