The robots. txt file is a simple method of essentially easing the process for the spiders to return the most relevant search results.
The robots.txt report shows which robots.txt files Google found for the top 20 hosts on your site, the last time they were crawled, and any warnings or errors encountered.
This is a custom result inserted after the second result.
A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests.
I guess I'm mostly wondering if NOT having a robots.txt file is potentially a proverbial knock on Google's website quality evaluation?
txt is valid for bots that respect it. Otherwise it is ignored by bad bots (who may or may not actually be "bad"). It is good form, as a ...
This file is on my wordpress blog: http://holfordwatch.info/robots.txt. It's stopping google from indexing the blog, and I presume other ...
Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct web robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl pages on their website.
A robots.txt file lives at the root of your site. Learn how to create a robots.txt file, see examples, and explore robots.txt rules.
View the robots.txt file on any Squarespace website.
One thing to remember is that the robots.txt file won't nessary stop the pages from being indexed. You need to use noindex meta tag or header ...