Leah Kelvin
Active member
Robots.txt is a file that exists in the root directory of a website and is used to communicate with web crawlers. Basically, it tells search engines which pages to crawl and which ones to exclude. For you to use robots.txt effectively; create the file first, specify user agents, use Allow and Disallow directives, add a Sitemap directive then add comments for clarity. Test this file as often as possible then update it accordingly because not all bots obey rules and robots.txt does not ensure privacy or protection of content. Therefore, website owners should know how to implement robots.txt correctly so that their web pages can be crawled and indexed well by search engines.
