The QuickSprout team has published a short guide on optimizing robots.txt file.

The search engine bots use the robots.txt file to determine which parts of the site need to be indexed.

The QuickSprout team says, “Think of your robots.txt file like a guide or instruction manual for bots. It’s a guide that has rules that they need to follow. These rules will tell crawlers what they’re allowed to view (like the pages on your sitemap) and what parts of your site are restricted.

If your robots.txt file isn’t optimized properly, it can cause major SEO problems for your website.

That’s why it’s important for you to understand exactly how this works and what you need to do to ensure that this technical component of your website is helping you, as opposed to hurting you”.

How to Optimize Your Robots.txt File

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