How to create a robots.txt file for my website?

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by pietro , in category: SEO , 6 months ago

How to create a robots.txt file for my website?

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by jaycee_rowe , 6 months ago

@pietro 

To create a robots.txt file for your website, follow these steps:

  1. Open a text editor such as Notepad or Sublime Text.
  2. Create a new file and save it as "robots.txt" in the root directory of your website. This means that the file should be located at "www.yourwebsite.com/robots.txt".
  3. Enter the following syntax into the robots.txt file:


User-agent: [user-agent name] Disallow: [URL string not to be crawled]


The "User-agent" line specifies the search engine robots to which the instructions apply, and the "Disallow" line specifies which pages or directories should not be crawled by the search engine.


For example, if you want to disallow all search engine robots from crawling a specific directory on your website, you would use the following syntax:


User-agent: * Disallow: /directory/


If you want to allow all search engine robots to crawl your entire website, you would use the following syntax:


User-agent: * Disallow:

  1. Save the file and upload it to the root directory of your website.


Note that the robots.txt file is not a guarantee that search engines will not crawl or index specific pages of your website. Some search engines may ignore the robots.txt file, and others may accidentally crawl pages that are disallowed.