What is Robots.txt in SEO?

When search engine bots come to websites and blogs, they follow the robots file and crawl the content. But your site will not have Robots.txt file, then search engine bots will start indexing and crawling all the content of your website which you do not want to index.

Search engine bots search the robots file before indexing any website. When they do not get any instructions from the Robots.txt file, they start indexing all the content of the website. And if any instructions are found, then following them index the website.

Therefore, for these reasons, the Robots.txt file is required. If we do not give instructions to the search engine bots through this file, then they index our entire site. Also index some such data, which you did not want to index.

Advantages of Robots.txt File

The search engine tells the bots which part of the site to crawl and index and which part not.
A particular file, folder, image, pdf etc. can be prevented from being indexed in search engines.
Sometimes search engine crawlers crawl your site like a hungry lion, which affects your site performance. But you can get rid of this problem by adding crawl-delay to your robots file.
You can make the entire section of any website private.
Can prevent internal search results page from showing in SERPs.
You can improve your website SEO by blocking low quality pages.

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Hitha Nanjappa

2 years ago

It is a text, MS word or any other text editing file with written instructions for search engine robot / spider to know where to crawl and where not to crawl on your site. It is added into the root directory of your domain.
Each file/folder is needed to be entered as a new line for the bot to exclude crawl through it.
However, it is not essential that you should always type instructions/script inside the .txt file.
Just having even a blank robots.txt file indicates an acknowledgement from you for the search engines that they have free access to your site.

It is highly recommended to add a robots text file to your main domain and all sub-domains on your site.

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Sadique Mannan

2 years ago

Robots. txt is a text file that website owners can create to tell search engine bots how to crawl and index pages on their site. You can have multiple lines of instructions to allow or disallow specific URLs and add multiple sitemaps.

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Tech Guru Seo

2 years ago

The robots. txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl.

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Jay Srivastava

2 years ago

A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google.

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