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What is robot.txt file and what role it play in the seo. and how can we create it.

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Several replies (notably , and ) covered the basic purpose. The notes below add practical creation steps, concise examples, and the most important pitfalls to avoid — information that complements the thread replies and answers ’s question about how to make the file.

Create and deploy: produce a plain-text file named robots.txt (UTF-8, no BOM) and place it in the web server’s document root so it is reachable at https://domain.tld/robots.txt. Any text editor will do. After upload, verify the file is publicly accessible (a browser or curl is fine).

Common, useful examples:

# allow all
User-agent: *
Disallow:

# block one folder
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/

# block whole site
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

# point crawlers to sitemap
Sitemap: https://domain.tld/sitemap.xml

Behavior and cautions: robots.txt is a crawl instruction, not a secure lock. Well-behaved crawlers obey it, but disallowed URLs can still show up in search results if linked from elsewhere. To prevent indexing, allow the page to be crawled and use a page-level meta noindex tag or an X-Robots-Tag header; if a page is blocked by robots.txt, search engines cannot see its meta tags. Do not list sensitive URLs in robots.txt (the file is public). Blocking site assets like CSS/JS can harm rendering and ranking; prefer meta noindex, authentication, or removing the file when confidentiality is required.

Testing and maintenance: test rules with crawler-specific tools (Search Console / webmaster tools) or by simulating requests. Keep robots.txt simple, comment with #, and update it whenever site structure changes. For targeted rules, add a specific User-agent: group before a wildcard group so the intended crawler sees the correct instructions.

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Member Avatar for Tiggerito

The file lets you request robots not to index certain files.

With relation to SEO, it helps you control which pages get indexed. So you can have pages that have no SEObenefit excluded from indexing. Also, restricting the number of pages that can be indexed increases the chance that your valuable pages will get indexed more frequently.

There are 1,000s of articles on the web to explain how to write one.

Member Avatar for claydcousta

Robots.txt file is used to tell the search engines which pages to be indexed by and which pages not to index. Robots.txt is file is used to block the admin pages in the site

Member Avatar for ilmkidunya

Thanks for your value able information, just one more question,

how can i create the text file is there any software for that or manually creates the file thanks

Member Avatar for jhonden

Robot.txt helps you to cover or not to show any files to search engine. It hides it from search engine.

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Robots.txt file is a set of instructions that tell search engine robots which pages of your site to be crawled and indexed. In most cases your site is consist of many files or folders i.e. admin folders, cgi-bin, image folder, which are not relevant to the search engines. Robots.txt helps tell spiders what is useful and public for sharing in the search engine indexes and what is not. Robots.txt file is to improve site indexation by telling search engine crawler to only index your content pages and to ignore other pages (i.e. monthly archives, categories folders or your admin files) that you do not want them to appear on the search index.

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Robots.txt file is used to tell the search engines which pages to be indexed by and not to index. Means this is the file where we can allow to searching engine what you have to follow or what not.

Member Avatar for ilmkidunya

Thank you jonywags is solves my problem....

Member Avatar for vinodkunwar

Hi friends, robot.txt file basically used to tell search engine which page crawl and which are not.................Thanks,

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What is robot.txt file and what role it play in the seo. and how can we create it.

They retrieved link pages to your website, they are the ones telling the google spiders what to visit and what are not.

Member Avatar for dailyearner

it instruct search engines robot to crawl your website

Member Avatar for pankajrocks

Robots.txt file is used to block any your of a websites which you don't want to get index by Search Engines.

Member Avatar for ADRIANEra

robots are performing the link building.mostly doing the off site

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