The Future of SEO by Eli Schwartz

The Future of SEO by Eli Schwartz

5 Creative uses for Robots.txt

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Eli Schwartz
Apr 02, 2023
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A robots.txt file is a text file that tells search engine robots which URLs they can access on your website. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of engines - to do that effectively you would need to completely block the page(s).

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