Does robots.txt prevent indexing?

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Robots.txt Checker

Verify that your robots.txt file is reachable and properly formatted for web crawlers.

Robots.txt Checker confirms that crawl directives allow search engine bots to discover key pages.

Fetches and analyzes domain/robots.txt for syntax errors, disallows, and sitemap links.

Never disallow CSS or JavaScript assets in robots.txt, as Google requires them to render mobile pages.

No. Robots.txt controls crawling, not indexing. To prevent indexing, use a <meta name='robots' content='noindex'> tag.

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Inspect rel=canonical link tags to prevent duplicate content indexing penalties.

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