How Do You Write Instructions For Web Crawlers Using A Text File?
This article will show you what to do to create instructions for web crawlers. Web crawlers also called spiders are little programs that search the internet and index all the sites that they can gain access to. They are also referred to as Bots or Robots. It is an ongoing process and their goal is to provide information to search engines like google and Yahoo. Sometimes there will be content on your some of your pages that you want to keep private. You may have certain downloadable content that you do not wish to share. Or, you may have unrelated content that you do not want indexed. Keeping data away from the web crawlers may help your ranking from being lowered by data that is not related to your key words. In these cases you can tell the web crawlers or robots to stay away from that data. I can show you two ways to do this. In this article I will show you the oldest method which uses a text file. I have provided a link below under RESOURCES to the other article I wrote on the newer
