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What Is The Robots.txt File?
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It's a file that can tell which inner pages of your website to be indexed by Google & other SE's :)
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It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.
There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt:
So don't try to use /robots.txt to hide information. Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called[I]The Robots Exclusion Protocol[/I]. It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say [url]http://www.example.com/welcome.html[/url]. Before it does so, it firsts checks for [url]http://www.example.com/robots.txt[/url], and finds: User-agent: * Disallow: / The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site. There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt: [list][*]robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.[/*][*]the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use.[/*][/LIST] So don't try to use /robots.txt to hide information.
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