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Robots.txt

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A file telling crawlers which parts of a site they may access.

Robots.txt sits at your domain root and can disallow crawling of sections. It controls crawling, not indexing — to keep a page out of results, use a noindex tag instead.

Ritesh kumar
Founder of the2m2g, writing about SEO in plain English.