Robots.txt vs meta robots vs x-robots

So many robots! What’s the difference between these three types of robot instructions? First off, robots.txt is an actual text file, whereas the meta tags and x-robots are meta directives. Beyond what they actually are, the three all serve different functions. Robots.txt dictates site or directory-wide crawl behavior, whereas meta and x-robots can dictate indexation behavior at the individual page (or page element) level.

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