Control Google's Spider and Get Web Pages Indexed Faster with Robots.txt
Get Your Web Pages Indexed Faster and Control Google's Spider with Robots.txt
One of the most critical SEO tasks is to control the search engine spiders (like Googlebot) that crawl and index your Web site. Mastery of these spiders is paramount to preventing duplicate content while ensuring that search engines focus mainly on your most important pages.
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Although it may seem a bit technical, spider control is actually easier than most people think. It's simply a matter of deploying an essential tool we call the robots.txt file. Robots.txt gives spiders (aka, robots) the direction they need to find your most important pages. This file ensures a spider's time on your site will be spent efficiently—and not be wasted by indexing obscure pages (think, Privacy Policy, About us, cgi pages, etc.) that are either problematic to spiders or unessential to searchers who are seeking your products or services.
Controlling Search Spiders with Robots.txt
Picture your robots.txt file as the tour guide to your site for the search engines. It provides a map that tells search engines where to find the content yo...