Friday, 27 September 2013

Robots Meta Robots Robots.txt

Robots - 

Also known as Spider / Crawler / Web Crawler / Robots
"Robots is an automated program used to feed the database of  their search engines with new information"
  • By Crawling link to link in search of new information.
  • By updating the database already index site.
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Robots.txt -  

This is a file that gives the instructions for all search engine robots. Webmaster use this file for avoid spamming.

To allow all Robots -
User-agent: *
Disallow: 

To Stop all Robots -
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

To Stop Robots on Particular Folder or Files -
User-agent: *
Disallow: / Folder Name/ Files Name.html

To allow all Robots Except Google -
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow:/

Note - -- *(The Astrick or Wild Card represents a special value that means any robots). The Disalow : line without / (forward slash) tells the robots that they can index the entire site.
After creating robots.txt file use can upload this file under root folder of website server.

Meta Robots - 

We write the meta robots under <head> section of webpage.

To allow all robots -
<meta name = "robots" content="all"/>
OR
<meta name = "robots" content="follow, index"/>

To Stop all robots -
<meta name = "robots" content="none"/>
OR
<meta name = "robots" content="nofollow, noindex"/>

If you want to robots follow your all links dont index your page then-
<meta name = "robots" content="follow, noindex"/>

If you want to robots don't follow your links and index your page then -
<meta name = "robots" content="nofollow, index"/>

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