Robot text.

[terrijhon]

What Is robot text and what its function in the website or SEO. Please give me its answers’ am waiting for its answers.

[abhirampathak3]

The robots.txt is a simple text file in your web site that informs search engine bots how to crawl and index website or web pages. By default search engine bots crawl everything possible unless they are forbidden from doing so. They always scan the robots.txt file before crawling the web site.

[kevinloyed]

Robots.txt file gives instructions to the google which pages should be crawled and should not be crawled.

[martinsherman]

the robots.txt file tells search engines which directories to crawl and which not to. You can use it to block crawlers from looking at your image directory if you don't want your images showing up on google search.
Be careful not to use this to try and block people from directories you want to keep secret. Anyone can view you robots.txt file. Make sure you password protect directories that need to be secured.

[ravenhope]

You can use it to block crawlers from looking at your image directory.

[jaysh4922]

Robot.txt is an on-page SEO technique and it is basically used to allow for the web robots also known as the web wanderers, crawlers or spiders. It is a program that traverses the website automatically and this helps the popular search engine like Google to index the website and its content.

[jayanta1]

"Robots.txt" is a normal text file. By defining a few rules in this text file, you can instruct robots to not crawl and index certain files, directories within your site. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but normally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. The position of robots.txt is very important. It must be in the main directory because otherwise user agents will not be able to find it – they do not search the whole site for a file named robots.txt. Instead, they look first in the main directory and if they don't find it there, they simply presume that this site does not have a robots.txt file and therefore they index the whole thing they find along the way.

[zamina]

It is great when search engines frequently visit your site and index your content but often there are cases when indexing parts of your online content is not what you want.

[socialmediadfw]

Robots.txt file is a text file which control to search engine spiders to crawl a website. If you want allow search engine spiders to crawl a website then use by default setting.

User-agent:*
disallow:

In above setting * indicates all search engines are allowed to crawl a website.

Now another example to stop search engine spiders to crawl a website

User-agent:*
disallow:/

In above setting all search engines are disallowed to crawl a website. IF you want to disallow to some pages of website to search engine spider the just give directory path after / in text file like below example.


User-agent:*
disallow:/wp-admin
disallow:/cgi-bin

[M2Mainak]

By using Robot txt file, you can tell search engines whether to index, follow or no follow your site. It is an essential thing for SEO.

[williamrichard]

Robots.txt is a text file you put it on your web site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site.

[johnstamos00000]

Hi williamrichard, I am agree with you

[outure11]

robot.txt is text file that allow crawlers to crawl your web page or not..

[James Andy]

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.

[david0019]

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.

The structure of a robots.txt is pretty simple (and barely flexible) – it is an endless list of user agents and disallowed files and directories. Basically, the syntax is as follows:

User-agent:

Disallow:

“User-agent” are search engines' crawlers and disallow: lists the files and directories to be excluded from indexing. In addition to “user-agent:” and “disallow:” entries, you can include comment lines – just put the # sign at the beginning of the line:

# All user agents are disallowed to see the /temp directory.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /temp/