Create Robots.txt File - Robots Text File
Creating a robots.txt file
Frequently Asked Questions
Creating a robots.txt file will not improve your search engine
positioning, but it does provide robots with information concerning
which files you will not allow to be crawled and indexed in the search
engines.
When a robot crawls your site it looks for the robots.txt file. If
it doesn't find one it assumes automatically that it may crawl and
index the entire site. Not having a robots.txt file can also create
unnecessary 404 errors in your server logs, making it more difficult
to track "real" 404 errors.
Assuming you want your entire site indexed and only want to stop
the unnecessary 404 errors from occurring you have a couple of
options.
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Please note: This will allow all robots to crawl and index all files.
This allows all robots to crawl all files.
User-agent: *
Disallow:
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Please note: Disallowing a specific file to be crawled will keep it from
being indexed. The file disallowed will not show up in the search
engines. HOWEVER, this is only effective for friendly robots. Robots
can choose to ignore your instructions.
This allows all robots to crawl all files except the images file.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
This allows all robots to crawl all files except the images file
and the stats file.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /stats/
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Occasionally you may find that you would like to disallow specific
robots from crawling your site or limit which files they may have
access to.
This denies access to Googlebot-image to any files in your domain
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
This specifically denies Googlebot-image to your images file
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/
For a current data base of robot names and information, visit:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html
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Simply create a text document and save the new document as
robots.txt Do not use a html editor to create the file unless is has
the ability to create a plain text document (ASCII). Most computers will allow you to create a text document using
notepad.
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Right click on your desktop
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Choose new
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Choose text document
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Open the document you just created
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Insert instructions to robots
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Click on save as
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Save document as robots.txt
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Once you have uploaded the file to the root directory of your
domain it's good idea to use a robots.txt validator to confirm that
everything is correct. You can search Google for
free robots.txt validator or try the one listed below.
http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml
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This page is intended to cover creating a very simple robots.txt
file. If you require a more detailed robots.txt file for your website
there are many help resources available on the net. Google Information
for Webmasters recommends visiting:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
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