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marvinsam 12-27-2016 12:47 AM

Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your website to tell the search robots which pages you would like them not to visit.

Gracechloe123 12-27-2016 03:06 AM

It is a type of text file through which we tells the bots what to crawl or what to not.

jyoti9sharma 12-27-2016 03:53 AM

robots.txt is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.

mageshhenry 12-27-2016 04:59 AM

The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots.

juliagrace 01-23-2017 04:41 AM

The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.

kateparkers 01-23-2017 04:44 AM

Robots.txt is a text file.
it gives instruction to search engine crawlers about indexing and caching of a webpage

online training 01-23-2017 11:26 PM

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.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

AshokDixit89 01-23-2017 11:33 PM

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.

pattroderick 01-23-2017 11:33 PM

robots.txt is a text file,to instruct robots,how to crawl and index pages on their website.

jordanangel 01-25-2017 03:55 AM

Robots.txt is a text file.
it gives instruction to search engine crawlers about indexing and caching of a webpage, file of a website or directory, domain.

hypex digital 01-25-2017 04:26 AM

Robot.txt is a file upload in the site to tell bots which has all want to crawl and not


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