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SEO Robots TXT

Finally, a robot that’s worth its weight… in search results. The SEO Robots file is the first thing a search engine robot looks for when visiting a website because they want to know where they’re allowed to go on your website. Think of it like the table of contents of a book or the reference manual to your website. It’s a must-have item that many business owners simply never knew existed.

Conversely, an improper setup robots.txt. file can have the opposite effect and block search engines from understanding your most vital pages for site visitors to reach. Our service includes fixing any potential issues as well as helping to ensure your website pages are properly indexed. It does not prevent unruly robots from snooping around and indexing hidden pages or content.

Description

Every day, bots — also known as robots or spiders, invade your website. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing send these bots to your site so your content can be crawled, indexed, and appear in search results. These types of bots are good, but there are some cases where you want to avoid the bot running around your website crawling and indexing everything. That’s where the robots.txt file comes in.

Adding certain directives to a robots.txt file directs the bots to crawl only the pages you want to be crawled. However, it’s important to understand that not every bot will adhere to the rules you write in your robots.txt file. Google, for instance, won’t listen to any directives you place in the file about crawling frequency.

Do you need a robots.txt file?

No, a robots.txt file is not required for a website. If a bot comes to your website and it doesn’t have one, it will just crawl your website and index pages as it normally would. However, there are benefits to having one including:

  • Help manage server overloads
  • Prevent crawl waste by bots that are visiting pages you do not want them to
  • Keep certain folders or subdomains private
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Timing: 2 to 3 days*
Requirement(s): Admin website access is required. See email post-purchase.

* Timing shown is estimated and is not guaranteed. Timing estimates can vary and depend upon many factors, including, but not limited to, holidays, weekends, scheduling conflicts, receiving required content, revisions & approvals, and more.

$67.00

SEO Robots TXT

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