Close the site from indexing Robots txt

Learn how to block search engines from indexing your website using robots.txt with an example.

Closing a Site from Indexing with Robots.txt

Robots.txt is a text file used by webmasters to give instructions to web robots (most commonly search engine crawlers). It tells them which parts of a website can and cannot be accessed, and it can be used to prevent search engines from indexing certain parts of a website.

To close a website from indexing with Robots.txt, you need to create a file with the name “robots.txt” and upload it to the root directory of the website. This file will contain instructions for web robots, telling them which parts of your website they should not index. Here is an example of a robots.txt file that prevents all web robots from accessing the entire website:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The “User-agent” line tells web robots which instructions to follow. In this example, the asterisk (*) is a wildcard, so the instructions apply to all web robots. The “Disallow: /” line tells web robots not to access any part of the website. This is the simplest way to block all search engine crawlers from indexing your website.

You can also use robots.txt to block only certain parts of your website from being indexed. For example, if you don’t want search engines to index the “/images” directory on your website, you can add the following line to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/

This line tells web robots not to access any files or directories in the “/images” directory. You can also use wildcards to block multiple directories at once. For example, if you don’t want search engines to index any directories that start with the word “private”, you can add the following line to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private*/

This line tells web robots not to access any files or directories that start with “private”. You can also use robots.txt to block web robots from accessing specific files. For example, if you don’t want search engines to index the “index.html” file in the root directory of your website, you can add the following line to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.html

This line tells web robots not to access the “index.html” file. By creating a robots.txt file and adding the appropriate instructions, you can prevent search engines from indexing certain parts of your website.