What's the significance of Robots.txt file in a website?
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Jump to PostTo tell bots (such as Googlebot) and other spiders and crawlers what parts of your site to avoid.
Jump to PostThe irony is palpable.
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Dani
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To tell bots (such as Googlebot) and other spiders and crawlers what parts of your site to avoid.
pty
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The irony is palpable.
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Vikash_12
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The robots.txt file is used in a website to tell web robots which pages to crawl and index and which not.
agustina
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Robots.txt files are beneficial to you for search engines to ignore the duplicate pages on your website.
sandy_5
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The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots how to crawl and index pages on their website.
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