utility of robot.txt

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    Can anyone tell me what is the utility of robot.txt files?
     
    Sherlin, Aug 4, 2010 IP
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    Most sites contain pages that should not be indexed by the search engines. Administrative pages, for example, ABC's "contact" page: "contact.html". There's no need to have it indexed, so we use the robots.txt file to tell the search engine spider (robot) to ignore it.
    http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html Here given link will help you a lot, All the information regarding robots.txt is available.
     
    Alan Smith, Sep 26, 2010 IP