what is robot.txt in SEO

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    hey friends..
    What is robot.txt in SEO and how it install or use.
    Please friends share your view.
    Thanks
     
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  2. petersmith5544

    petersmith5544 Greenhorn

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    robot.txt is a text file which you put on your site to tell search engine bot not to crawl or index the pages which you do want. For e.g. If you have two version of a particular page, and if Google index both the pages then it will penalize for using same content. In order to avoid this, you can use robot.txt file for not allowing to crawl that page.
     
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    The robots exclusion protocol (REP), or robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) on how to crawl & index pages on their website.
     
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    Robots.txt is a text file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do.
     
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    Robots.txt file is a file which provide a way to webmasters to allow access to search engine bots about crawling and indexing of webpages.
     
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    It is a text file where you use to block that page or folder by Google reading and you have to simply upload this file with like www.example.com/robots.txt
     
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    Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do. It is important to clarify that robots.txt is not a way from preventing search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall, or a kind of password protection) and the fact that you put a robots.txt file is something like putting a note “Please, do not enter” on an unlocked door – e.g. you cannot prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter. That is why we say that if you have really sen sitive data, it is too naïve to rely on robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.
     
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    Elfen Lied Banned

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    Robots.txt is a file through which you can guide search engines to crawl or not to crawl certain sections of your website. [​IMG]

    Google specifically follows instructions given in this robots.txt file

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    Robots.txt is a file through which you can guide search engines to crawl or not to crawl certain sections of your website.
     
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    Robots.txt is type of a command for Google bots, with this command one can decide which page should display and which page should not display of a website in Google search results
     
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    Robot.txt is a simple text file.its very useful for search engine crawling all webpage and indexing data
     
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