There is no law stating that /robots. txt must be obeyed, nor does it constitute a binding contract between site owner and user, but having a /robots. txt can be relevant in legal cases. Obviously, IANAL, and if you need legal advice, obtain professional services from a qualified lawyer.

Commands can be set up to apply to specific robots according to their user-agent (such as 'Googlebot'), and the most common directive used within a robots. txt is a 'disallow', which tells the robot not to access a URL path. You can view a sites robots. txt in a browser, by simply adding /robots.

Unblock the URLs: Identify the rules blocking the pages in the robots. txt file and remove or comment out those lines. Test the changes: Use Google's robots. txt Tester to test the changes and ensure that the pages you want indexed are no longer being blocked.

A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google. To keep a web page out of Google, block indexing with noindex or password-protect the page.