Why include Robot.txt file in your sitemap

I spoke with an experienced web developer yesterday who mentioned he didn’t have robot.txt files in his sitemap.I was more than a little surprised.

A robots.txt file is important to include in your sitemap because it helps search engines find your sitemap and understand how to crawl and index your site.

This improves your site's crawlability and indexing, which leads to better search engine rankings

Creating a Robots. txt file allows search crawlers to find and identify your website's sitemap more accurately too. It also helps reduce the potential workload of the search engine bots to index your website.

If a Robots. txt file is not included, the sitemap will need to be submitted manually to the search engine directly. This usually takes 8-10 seconds a page or you can do uk to 500 pages via Google Search Console. More via Bing.

Organises content

Using multiple sitemap links in a robots.txt file helps organise content AND ensure that search engines crawl and index the site more effectively. Most crawls by the bits usually only crawl about 20% of your website pages… we can index 100% of your pages every day for you if you like.

According to Google 95% of website pages get ZERO traffic.

This tip will help ecommerce businesses and large website owners get more organic traffic.If you want to increase or improve your website traffic, or want a free website audit and site traffic overview. DM me or comment below with your URL.

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