How to Create robots.txt File
Video tutorial showing how to create robots.txt file on a web server. Learn how to use Robots Exclusion Protocol directives to control user-agent web crawlers like Googlebot crawling.
IMPORTANT: most website owners believe that using robots.txt file directives will let Google not index certain URLs. This is NOT true. The only real use cases for using robots.txt file rules are:
1. if you want to let certain parts of a website not be crawled by Googlebot
2. if Googlebot is requesting to many URLs thus causing server performance issues.
Basically, to be able to control Google to not index certain URLs on a website, you will need to use other methods such as noindex.
Introduction to robots.txt
https://developers.google.com/search/...
More robots.txt file examples and how to's can be found here:
https://www.rankya.com/seo/robots-txt...
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