Question Re: Robots.txt

[NewComputer]

I have a question regarding the actual tesxt involved. If you have this:

User-agent: Ihatebots*
Disallow:

and

User-agent: Ihatebots*
Disallow: /

The first one means allow and the second one mean disallow, correct?

[Help Desk]

I belive second means that you are dissallowing indexing of the root or the "/" directory and its sub-directories.

[Smyrl]

The following allows all robots to visit all files because the wildcard "*" specifies all robots.
User-agent: *
Disallow:

This one keeps all robots out.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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