Robots.txt Checker – Online tool to validate robots.txt file and to find errors
Search engines are friendly with a file called robots.txt, whenever bots visit your website they do check it. Robots.txt allows webmaster to restrict access or allow access to bots.
What does robots.txt file do?
- A web robot or web crawler which first visits a website it looks up for the robots.txt files. For example when a search crawler looks up http://www.ePressDNA.com it will look up for http://www.ePressDNA.com/robots.txt.
- This robots.txt actually allows and disallows a search engine to look up certain directories of a domain. For instance if you website has hosted a wiki you do not want to be accessible for search engines to look up, then that directory has to be excluded from looking up by a search engine.
About Robots.txt checker
- The website allows you to enter any URL and check the robots.txt file. This scan is usually looks up errors based on what is disallowed.
- It also shows up warning for any matches what might be misunderstood or ignored by search engine crawlers.
This is not really something that I would recommend webmasters to obsess over as usually most robots.txt of many websites are similar
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