Is it necessary to use Robots.txt?
 

Hi,

My question is, Is it necessary to use Robots.txt?

Yes, we need robots.txt in our website. Google spiders first see in your website robots.txt to which page they crawl or which not.

Robots.txt files are useful:

If you want search engines to ignore any duplicate pages on your website
If you don’t want search engines to index your internal search results pages
If you don’t want search engines to index certain areas of your website or a whole website
If you don’t want search engines to index certain files on your website (images, PDFs, etc.)
If you want to tell search engines where your sitemap is located

Robot.txt is using for identifying the located map or pages from which the users identify the web page.

A robots.txt record is utilized to tell search motors which pages you don't need to be slithered/listed.

There are different reasons you may wish to obstruct certain pages on a site :
- you know certain pages have copy content
- private pages (not for general visibility)
- administrator pages
- test/draft/under development pages
- pages with blunders

yes its keep your confidential file hide from searchengine spider.

Yes. robots.txt for our website.

It is not important use robots. txt file but it is advisable to use it, if there is any page on your websites which you don't want search engine to crawl. Robots.txt also improves better indexing for the website.

yes, it is must we should include robots.txt

yes robots.txt is very important for the site.

it is a guide for google bots, to crawl your site in your way. you can use it,not crawl any type of file u want.

Robots.txt is a text file that is uploaded to a website's root directory and linked in the html code of the website. The robots.txt is used to provide instructions about the website to webrobots and spiders.

Google spiders first see in your website robots.txt to which page they crawl or which not.