Allow and Disallow tell compliant crawlers which paths they may request. The meaning is simple, but overlapping paths can create unexpected results.

Disallow examples

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /search/

These rules request that crawlers avoid URLs beginning with the listed paths.

When Allow is useful

User-agent: *
Disallow: /files/
Allow: /files/public/

This blocks the broader folder while making an exception for a public subfolder. Search engines usually compare the most specific matching rule.

Review the intention

Do not block a page only because it has low traffic. Robots.txt is mainly a crawl-management mechanism. For duplicate or low-value pages, canonical tags, noindex and improved internal linking may be more appropriate depending on the goal.