1. Business & Finance

Discuss in my forum

What should I name my robot file?

By , About.com Guide

Question: What should I name my robot file?
Answer:

Without exception, always create your robots file in a plain text editor (i.e., Notepad). It will not work if it is created in Word, or has any extension other than .txt(i.e., files ending in .doc, .htm, .html, etc. will not work).

All search engines will look for the same robots text file by the same name and with the same extension.

robots (required file name) + txt. (required file extension)

When created, your file name should look like this ("robots" is plural and all lower case):

robot.txt

When uploaded to your website, it should be placed ONLY in the root directory as follows:

http://yourdomainname.com/robots.txt

©2012 About.com. All rights reserved.

A part of The New York Times Company.