Availing privacy for your website:

In case you need to have privacy for your website, you must take measures for it. The search engine crawlers tend to crawl all the pages of your website. Well, this is natural for them to do so. However, if you have certain pages which consist of confidential information, then it is definitely important to hide these pages away from the Google crawlers. Or else you will soon find the information which are dear for your company, being available on the internet search results. One of the ways, in fact an effective measure is the use of the Robots.txt file. This is sure to keep all the Google crawlers away from the pages which are never to be seen by anyone.

Why you need the Robots.txt file:

If you are still wondering why exactly you need to keep these crawlers away from your site, we can explain what we said above, in details. Think of what can happen to an eCommerce site. If a site like that is having its clients’ information stored in the database, would it be nice, if the crawlers get access to it. Imagine how important would be the information of your clients for you. What if these information are put on display on the internet? But the crawlers are anyway going to get access to these pages. This is what they are supposed to do. You cannot do anything about it. However, you can prevent them instead of praying that something may change their nature. That sounds much logical, doesn’t it? Such is the task of aRobots.txt file. It is more like that of a guard which prevents the crawlers from accessing the page of the site.

How effective is the robots.txt file?

We have suggested you to use the robots.txt file. But the question arises, how far can it work? Will it be able to prevent all the crawlers and keep them at bay? You must know that the crawlers can go pass the robots.txt file and view you pages. But these crawlers are programmed with such artificial intelligence that they will look out for the robots.txt files when crawling the pages of any website. Now whenever they will see that file, they will not crawl those particular pages. The pages of these sites are then not accessed by these crawlers.

Now they are never going to crawl the site pages they are not supposed to. Even the search engine crawlers don’t want to violate the rules or else they have to face with dire consequences. Hence they have nothing more to do else following what your robots.txt file says.

But you still need safety measures:

We are not exactly worried about what the search engine crawlers will do. We are worried about the consequences which will happen due to the exposure of your presence on the internet. While exposure is what all the businesses crave for, the exposure also brings difficult situations. For it is the spammers and the viruses which are the real threats and you must have an anti-virus protection for your site.