what is robotxt.file ?

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

Robot .txt is the file which is used on a website to give instruction about this website to search engine spiders ; is called robot.txt Protocol.

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

When you block URLs from being indexed in Google via robots.txt they may still show those pages as URL only listings in their search results. A better solution for completely blocking the index of a particular page is to use a robots noindex meta tag on a per page bases.

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

Sometimes you have sensitive data on your site that you do not want the world to see, you will also prefer that search engines do not index these pages.Robot txt file would help you to tell spider which file to crawl and which not.

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

• Robots.txt is a simple notepad file which is use for indexing and non indexing purpose.

In this file use query is
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
User-agent:*
Disallow:/

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

One way to tell search engines which files and folders on your Web site to avoid is with the use of the Robots metatag. But since not all search engines read metatags, the Robots matatag can simply go unnoticed.

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

For those who is not familiar with robots.txt syntax, please visit Google Robots Specifications.

To test your robots, please login to your webmaster and click on the website you want to test. Next go to Health -> Blocked URLs. Scroll down to the text field "URLs Specify the URLs and user-agents to test against" and enter any url address and press test.

Re: what is robotxt.file ?

Robot.txt is the file uploaded on the website server. It has the list of URL with the instruction to follow or not to follow them