A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers what URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is mainly used to avoid overloading your site with requests; This is not a system to keep any web page out of Google. To keep a web page away from Google, block indexing with Noindex or password protect the page.
A robots.txt file can be found at the base of your website. For example, for the website www.example.com, the robots.txt file is located at www.example.com/robots.txt. The robots.txt file is a plain text file that follows the robots exclusion standard. The robots.txt file contains one or more rules. Each rule restricts or allows access to a single file location on the domain or subdomain where the robots.txt file is hosted.
A) Here is a simple robots.txt file with two rules:-
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /nogooglebot/
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
B) Basic guidelines for creating a robots.txt file
There are four steps involved in creating a robots.txt file and making it generally accessible and useful:-
1. Create a file named robots.txt.
2. Add rules to the robots.txt file.
3. Upload the robots.txt file to the root of your site.
4. Test the robots.txt file
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