Robots.txt By default Search Engine Crawlers are made to crawl each and every page of the website. Crawlers will crawl each and every page and will submit it to index as per Search Engine Guidelines. But website may contain some confidential content that should not be shown to the user. Those confidential contents may be ... Read more
The Robots Exclusion Standard was developed in 1994 so that website owners can advise search engines how to crawl your website. It works in a Similar way as the Robots meta tag. The main difference being that the robots.txt file stop search engines from seeing a page or directory, whereas the robots meta tag only controls whether it is indexed.