What is the importance of robot.txt in SEO?

[jsharma]

Hello,
What is the importance of robot.txt in SEO?

[MVMinfotech18]

The robots.txt file, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or standard, is a text file that tells web robots (most often search engines) which pages on your site to crawl. It also tells web robots which pages not to crawl. Let's say a search engine is about to visit a site.

[neelseowork]

The robots exclusion standard, also known as the robots exclusion protocol or simply robots.txt, is a standard used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots. The standard specifies how to inform the web robot about which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.

[traveloweb]

Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl & index pages on their website.

[prawalikaroy]

robots.txt file is a very important file if you want to have a good ranking on search engines

[Jessicad0505]

In SEO , A robots.txt file gives instructions to web robots about the pages the website owner doesn’t wish to be ‘crawled’. For instance, if you didn’t want your images to be listed by Google and other search engines, you’d block them using your robots.txt file

[RH-Calvin]

Robots.txt is a text file that lists webpages which contain instructions for search engines robots. The file lists webpages that are allowed and disallowed from search engine crawling.