What is robots.txt file?

Posted Date: 24 May 2008 Resource Type: Articles Category: Web Applications

Posted By: Ravindra Kumar Singh Member Level: Gold
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If you are web developer or working with web application then i think all of you aware with this file. Yeah it is text file because extension is .txt. But it is specific also.In this file, you can instruct robots to not crawl and index certain files, folders/subfolders within your site. For example, you may not want search engine to crawl the /admin directory of your site, as it's both meaningless to you. So text file "Robots.txt" lets you tell search engine just that.

How to Create this text file:
1. File name should be the same "robots.txt"
2. It should be in the root of the web application and not any sub folder.

example:
Useragent: *
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /content/
Disallow: /counsellor/

Where a USERAGENT line to identify the crawler in question followed by one or more DISALLOW: lines to disallow it from crawling certain parts of your site.

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Author: Raghav 25 May 2008

Member Level: Gold Points : 2

Thank you sir

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