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Avoid Overloading of Requests with Robots Txt

  • Writer: Sonika Dhaliwal
    Sonika Dhaliwal
  • Jul 31, 2020
  • 2 min read

A robot.txt file helps the search engine to know which files or pages can or cannot be searched from your website. It is used to avoid any overloading on your website with the requests. The robot.txt can be used for managing the crawling traffic if your server gets overwhelmed with the requests from the crawler of Google. It is useful even if you want to avoid the crawling on similar or unimportant pages. Well, the robot.txt should not be used for hiding your webpages from the results of Google search. Even if your webpage is blocked with the robots.txt, it will still be appearing in the Google search results.

Strong Impression


It is really necessary to give a strong impression as the search engines are challenging judges. If robot.txt is used properly, it can help you increase the crawl level and would also impact the SEO efforts. Robot.txt is located in the site's root directory. If you want to identify it, you can open the FTP cPanel and you can quickly find the file in the public Html directory of the website. It's a plain text script, and it's really simple to create. Much like Notepad, you need a basic text editor. You will open a sheet and save an empty page as 'robot.txt.'

You can have more power over the search engine than you thought you have. Sure, you can likely exploit indexes and crawls on your website. It can also be managed on individual websites, and you need to use the robots txt file to do so. It's a really basic file in the root directory of your web. This helps to warn the robots sent by the search engines to test and overlook the sites. It's really a potent tool that will help you show your website to Google in the manner they want to see.

Block Resource Files


The robot.txt file is also used for blocking resource files like the unimportant script, style files, or image. If the absence of such resources makes it very difficult for the crawler of Google in understanding the pages then you must not do block as Google will not do a good job of analyzing the pages which depend on the resources. The robot.txt can be used for managing the crawling traffic. Moreover, the audio, video files, and images can also be prevented from the Google search results.

The robot.txt file is made up of specific 'directives,' each of which starts with the defined user-agent. It's the name of the particular crawl bot that the code is referring to. There will be two choices, one of which is to use a wildcard to tackle all engines at once. Second, you can use the search engines independently. When the bot is deployed to crawl the website, it will be attracted to blocks that label them. You need to click on the file and then pick the 'file permission'. You're always going to get a robot.txt file for this.

 
 
 

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