In performing maintenance and search engine optimization (SEO) tasks on / for your web properties, there are several factors to consider. Proper HTML formatting, good backlinking, and solid site promotion are all important, but they're not worth anything if Google and the other search engines can't even find your site! Worse yet, if you're selling something, you don't want the search engines finding your product download page and giving your stuff away for free! One of the easiest and yet most overlooked way to fix these potential pitfalls is by making sure you have a proper robots.txt file associated with your website.

For those not familiar with the concept, Robots.txt is a simple text file that tells the search engines how to behave when they encounter a certain page. The only trouble is, if you have many different websites requiring many different behavioral styles from the search engines, making & checking for the presence of these files can take a long time. Happily, the Robots.txt Checker makes that concern a thing of the past.

The Robots.txt Checker does just what it says: It checks for the presence of the Robots.txt file on a given website or websites, and lets the user view them, if applicable. Using the tool is as easy as it gets. Just enter your desired URLs (as many as you like, one at a time), enter the "Captcha code", and click "Continue". Your results will then be generated, and you will be given an easy to read report which contains them.