Technical SEO

robots.txt

A file telling supporting crawlers which paths they may retrieve.

A practical example

A website limits crawling of internal search URLs.

What should I know?

It is not private data protection or a reliable way to remove pages from an index.

Technical SEO in practice

Check crawler access, server responses, and content processing separately. Then assess indexing and search appearance. These stages are connected but distinct and need different diagnostic methods.

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Related terms

CrawlerA program that automatically visits pages and files to find information or collect data.noindexAn instruction telling a supporting system not to include a page in search results.DisallowA robots.txt rule limiting retrieval of specified paths by crawlers that follow the file.

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