I would like to know that is there any limitation for robot.txt file for a website. Is this such a serious issue if we cross the limit. Please suggest me in this.
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I would like to know that is there any limitation for robot.txt file for a website. Is this such a serious issue if we cross the limit. Please suggest me in this.
Googlebot's 500KB Crawl Limit On Robots.txt Files and will only read the first 500kb.
This is very interesting, is that the that the case, How news magazines pages are getting crawled and showing on top of the results.Quote:
Originally Posted by makemoneyonline10
I thought it's fake news but just a while ago I have gone through a authoritative post in a website that shared official tweet by John Mueller who is a Google employee.
Google's John Mueller said:
#102 of the things to keep in mind when working on a big website: If you have a giant robots.txt file, remember that Googlebot will only read the first 500kb. If your robots.txt is longer, it can result in a line being truncated in an unwanted way. The simple solution is to limit your robots.txt files to a reasonable size :-).
So we should be careful in this regard and limit our robots file as per our requirement that could save our goals.
500kb in a .txt file is huge!
Folks, as per latest reports you can upload up to 50MBPS XML sitemap file. So you expect more updates from Google team.Quote:
Originally Posted by wink0r
An XML site map has a different purpose than a robots.txt file.
robots.txt must not cross the file size of 500kb.
Robot.txt file can be use to tell search engine bots that which directories or pages the search engine should not crawl and index, in addition of this there would be several other benefits of using robots.tx for example we also mention our website sitemap url in it, so google and other search engines can crawl the content and links from sitemap too. According to google there is a size limit of 500 kilobytes (KB) for robots.txt file.
Type in the URL of a page on your site in the text box at the bottom of the page.
Robots.txt is a text file which use webmaster creat to instruct web robots how to crawl pages on their website. It is the part of the robots exclusion protocol (REP) that regulate how robots crawl the web access and index page content and serve that content to end users.
"Robots.txt is a text file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit."
robots.txt is a file that contains the instructions by website owner for web crawlers of search engine to not visit, crawl and index the web page.
robots.txt is very important to hide some directory of your site and for security purpose