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Glossary

What is robots.txt?

A file at the root of a site telling crawlers which areas they may or may not fetch.

In more detail

It controls crawling, not indexing. It is also where sites state their policy for AI crawlers.

Example

Disallowing the admin area while allowing everything else.

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