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title: "What is role of robot.txt file in seo"  
description: "What is role of robot.txt file in seo"  
author: "Ashish srivastava"  
published: 2015-09-24  
updated: 2020-09-17  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22839/what-is-role-of-robot-txt-file-in-seo  
category: "search engine optimization"  
tags: ["seo"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is role of robot.txt file in seo

***A robots.txt*** file is a file at the root of our site that indicates those parts of our site we don’t want accessed by google search engine crawlers

## Answers

### Answer by Royce Roy

***A robots.txt*** file is a file at the root of our site that indicates those parts of our site we don’t want accessed by google search engine crawlers


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