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Old 02-16-2016, 11:59 PM   #1
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What is the use of Robots.txt?

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What is the use of Robots.txt?
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Old 02-17-2016, 12:47 AM   #2
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Website owners use the Robots.txt file to give insturctions about their site to web robots this is called The Robots Exclusions Protocol.
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Old 02-17-2016, 12:56 AM   #3
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Hi, robot.txt file is used to give instruction to the search engine about, which page to be crawled are which not.

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Old 02-17-2016, 02:54 AM   #4
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In Simple words Robot.txt files gives instructions of your website to search engines.
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Old 02-17-2016, 03:24 AM   #5
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Hello friends,

What is the use of Robots.txt?
Robots.txt will make search engine spider to avoid crawl the particular URL of your website.
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Old 02-17-2016, 09:52 PM   #6
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Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl and index pages on their website.

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Web site owners use the robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

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Old 02-17-2016, 11:26 PM   #7
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What is the use of Robots.txt?
Robots.txt file is used to instruct crawler which page has crawl or which page not. You can block a whole folder through this file.
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Old 02-17-2016, 11:31 PM   #8
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It is a text file. It instruct the crawler which page has crawl or not
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