How Robots.txt Shapes Search Engine Behavior
The robots.txt file is the first place a crawler encounters when it visits a site. Think of it as a polite invitation card: it tells search engine bots which parts of your website are open to explore and which parts should remain behind the scenes. Search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo read this file before they begin crawling, and they generally respect its directives. Because the file sits at the root of your domain - https://yoursite.com/robots.txt. Any other location will likely be ignored.
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