Search engine bots (including robots, spiders or user agents) crawl the web every day looking for new content. Your mission is to analyze and index websites. Before the crawlers begin their work, however, they first have to pass the robot.txt file. The so-called “Robots Exclusion Standard Protocol” was first published in 1994 and regulates the behavior of search engine bots on websites. Unless otherwise stated, the bots can crawl your website unhindered. Creating a robots.txt can also help to protect certain pages or individual elements from the view of web spiders. In this article you will learn in which cases it makes sense to create a robots.txt and what you should pay attention to when generating and testing the file. If a search engine bot reaches your website, it aims…