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A robots.txt file lives at the root of a website. So, for the site <www.example.com>, a robots.txt file would live at <www.example.com/robots.txt>. robots.txt is a plain text file that follows the [Robots Exclusion Standard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#About_the_standard). A robots.txt file consists of one or more rules. Each rule blocks (or allows) access for a given crawler to a specified file path in that website. |
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A `robots.txt` file lives at the root of a website. So, for the site www.example.com, a robots.txt file would live at www.example.com/robots.txt. robots.txt is a plain text file that follows the [Robots Exclusion Standard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#About_the_standard). A robots.txt file consists of one or more rules. Each rule blocks (or allows) access for a given crawler to a specified file path in that website. |