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A web robot’s primary job is to crawl or scan websites and pages for information; they work tirelessly to collect data for search engines and other applications. For some, there is good reason to keep pages away from search engines. Whether you want to fine-tune access to your site or want to work on a development site without showing up on Google results, once implemented, the robots.txt file lets web crawlers and bots know what information they can collect.

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