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A robots.txt file is used to restrict your entire site, pages, images and directories from search engine bots which crawls your website.
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<h3>Robots.txt Syntax:</h3>
<p><strong>User-agent:</strong> This section is used on applying for specific search engine robots</p>
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to specify which URL, Folder, Image Path and Directory to block
Bot Pattern to be used in User-agent section:
User-agent: * (This applies for all bots)
User-agent: Googlebot (This applies to Google Search Engine Bot)
User-agent: Bingbot (This applies to Bing Search Engine Bot)
Robots.txt Example Patterns:
To block the entire website
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
To allow indexing the whole website
User-agent: *
Disallow:
(OR)
User-agent: *
Allow: /
To block the specific folder
User-agent: *
Disallow: /foldername/
Disallow a folder from Googlebot but allow indexing a specific file in that folder
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /foldername1/
Allow: /foldername1/specificfilename.html
To block a directory
User-agent: *
Disallow: /directoryname/
To block a page
User-agent: *
Disallow: /page-name.html
To block a specific image from Google images
User-agent: Googlebot – Image
Disallow: /images/imagename.jpg
To block all images from Google Images
User-agent: Googlebot – Image
Disallow: /
To block specific image file type
User-agent: Googlebot – Image
Disallow: /*.jpg$
To block all URLs which includes a “?” (Question Mark)
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?
To block URLs that ends with .html
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.html$
Robots Meta Tag:
To block the page from indexing using meta tag
(Or)
Adding Sitemap in Robots.txt File:
Use the below syntax to add a sitemap URL in Robots.txt file
Sitemap: http://www.domainname.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.domainname.com/image-sitemap.xml
Here are some best plugins & tools to create robots.txt file,
WordPress Plugins:
Robots.txt Generator Tools:
tor/”>SEOBOOK Robots.txt File Generator
tor/”>MCANERIN Robots.txt Code Generation Tool
Do you need to validate the syntax of your robots.txt file? Use the below tools,
Robots.txt Checker Tools:
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