robots.txt Advertising Methods

Some search engines may look for and analyse its contents of a text file named robots.txt in your main directory. The robots.txt file is may be used to tell search engines which directory's they should not search in.

If the search engine is able to find robots.txt it will analyse its contents.

To Allow access all directory's:-

User-agent: *
Disallow:

To Disallow access all directory's. (note the back slash):-

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

To exclude specific directory's. In this example, three directories are excluded e.g. cgi-bin, data and images:-

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /images/

Place robots.txt in your main directory.

Some search engines may have specific codes to prevent that particular search engine from searching a website.

Excluding a file from an individual Search Engine. For example for Google:-

If you have a file, keepoutfile.htm, that you do not wish to be indexed by Google. Google uses a spider that Google sends out is called 'Googlebot'. You would add these lines to your robots.txt file:

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /keepoutfile.htm

View the robots.txt file for his site.

Advice: Recommended use robots.txt. Some search engines may list sites quicker or be able to improve site ranking for sites which use them. Only ever use relevant robots.txt that relate to your web page. They should never be abused or over used. Also see Meta Tag

Don't rely on robots.txt to stop users from viewing information or as a powerful security tool.

Remember to rename the file exactly as "robots.txt" (all lowercase) and Not robot.txt in singular. Place robots.txt in your main directory.

More information:- Robotstxt.org and Database of Web robots, Overview

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