{"id":329,"date":"2008-08-11T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/search-engine-indexing-and-robots-txt-files\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T12:50:00","slug":"search-engine-indexing-and-robots-txt-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/search-engine-indexing-and-robots-txt-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Indexing and Robots.txt Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> What is It?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Search engine<\/span> robots will check a special plain text file in the root of each server called robots.txt before indexing a site. Robots.txt implements the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which allows you as a web manager, to define what parts of your site are off-limits to search engine crawlers. For example, Web managers can disallow access to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), or private and temporary directories, because they don&#8217;t want pages in those areas indexed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some general information about robots.txt files.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Robots.txt File<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The robots exclusion standard or robots.txt protocol is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website. The information specifying the parts that should not be accessed is specified in a file called robots.txt in the top-level directory of the website. The robots.txt file is made up of two parts, the User-agent and the Disallow. The User-agent specifies which robots to allow or disallow and the Disallow specifies which directories robots can or cannot crawl. The robots.txt is a gentleman&#8217;s agreement and some crawlers, such as Google, may ignore the robots.txt file that disallows all crawling. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is It? Search engine robots will check a special plain text file in the root of each server called robots.txt before indexing a site. Robots.txt implements the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which allows you as a web manager, to define what parts of your site are off-limits to search engine crawlers. For example, Web managers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}