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Importance Of Using Robots.txt File

If you have a well designed and well optimized website with keyword rich content to attract visitors and search engines that is really great but you are missing something that is very important. Do you know what that is? That is Robots.txt file. Robots.txt file has lots of importance as it allows spiders or crawlers to allow or disallow to crawl all pages of a website or a particular webpage. Sometimes people have some confidential data on their website and by using robots.txt file they can restrict crawlers or spider to not crawl or index that particular page so no one can reach on that page and in this way confidential data on that page will be secure. While going to crawl a website or a webpage search engine spiders or crawlers often look for a special file that is called Robots.txt file because through robots.txt file search engine spiders or crawlers come to know about which web pages of that website have to crawl or index and which web pages have to ignore. Robots.txt file is a s