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Extracted from the [http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html Robots txt.org site] provides the folowing explanation on using the The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
<sub>Link provided by BruceM on User2 list 6/30/2009 10:34 PM</sub>
Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.
It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say <nowiki>http://www.example.com/welcome.html</nowiki>. Before it does so, it firsts checks for <nowiki>http://www.example.com/robots.txt</nowiki>, and finds:
<syntaxhighlight lang="html4strict" enclose="div">
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
</syntaxhighlight>
The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.
There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt:
* robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
* the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use.
So don't try to use /robots.txt to hide information.
Note that malware or email harvesting bots will ignore the directives of the robots.txt file.
Note that malware or email harvesting bots will ignore the directives of the robots.txt file.
== Related links ==
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[http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html Robots txt.org site]
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