{"id":262,"date":"2019-05-23T13:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newszii.com\/marketing\/?p=262"},"modified":"2019-05-23T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:11:39","slug":"know-about-robots-txt-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newszii.com\/marketing\/know-about-robots-txt-file\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About Robots.Txt File"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on May 23rd, 2019<\/p>

Why should I have robots?text file? Is not it great when search engines visit my site frequently and index my content?<\/p>\n

What? You Don’t Want Your Every Online Content To Be Indexed?<\/h4>\n

Oh, you want to avoid the risk of being imposed a duplicate content penalty<\/a>. Apart from this, your site might contain sensitive data that you do not want the world to see.<\/p>\n

You will also prefer that search engines<\/a> do not index these pages.<\/p>\n

Robots.txt is a text (not HTML) is a simple text file placed on your web server which tells web crawlers like Googlebot<\/a> if they should access a file or not.<\/p>\n

By default search engines are greedy. They want to index as much high-quality information as they can, & will assume that they can crawl everything unless you tell them otherwise. If you specify data for all bots (*) and data for a specific bot (like GoogleBot) then the specific bot commands will be followed while that engine ignores the global\/default bot commands.<\/p>\n

In practice, robots.txt<\/a> files indicate whether certain user agents (web-crawling software) can or cannot crawl parts of a website. These crawl instructions are specified by \u201cdisallowing\u201d or \u201callowing\u201d the behavior of certain (or all) user agents.<\/p>\n

A robots.txt file lives at the root of your site. So, for site www.example.com, the robots.txt file lives at www.example.com\/robots.txt. robots.txt is a plain text file that follows the Robots Exclusion Standard. A robots.txt file consists of one or more rules. Each rule blocks (or allows) access for a given crawler to a specified file path in that website. However, before you create or edit robots.txt, you should know the limits of this URL blocking method<\/a>. At times, you might want to consider other mechanisms to ensure your URLs are not findable on the web.<\/p>\n

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  1. Robots.txt<\/li>\n
  2. Creating Robots.txt File<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. Robots.Txt<\/h4>\n

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    Websites always store the robots.txt at the root of the website. The search engine spiders look for the robots.txt on the root of a domain. It will not look anywhere else on the website so you can\u2019t actually specify a different location for it. Robots.txt is always named in lower case, as well.<\/p>\n

    Robots.txt instructs the search engine spiders<\/a> as to what part of the website to index and what parts should be ignored. It somehow controls the action of the search engine spiders in such a way that it directs its movement.<\/p>\n

    It is like a recommendation \u2013 robots.txt recommends which part of the sites to index.<\/p>\n

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    2. Creating Robots.Txt File<\/h4>\n

    How do you create a robots.txt file? First, you need to identify what should be included in the robots.txt file. A robots.txt file is like a list of instructions. One part of the robots.txt file is the User-agent. It is the one that tells the robots or spiders reading the file which robots should pay attention to the instructions. Oftentimes User-agent indicates \u201c*\u201d which means \u201call robots\u201d.<\/p>\n

    After the User-agent follows the rules themselves. Remember that there should not be any blank lines in the instructions. The instructions in the robots.txt oftentimes follow these formats:<\/p>\n