robots.txt help please

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Audiomad, Jul 9, 2007.

  1. #1
    I'm not using any robots.txt file I dont even know where to start can you help me out?
     
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  2. cormac

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    Take a read of Google's help for creating robots.txt file. Whenever you create one use notepad.

    Its a very easy process to create one depending on what you want or do not want accessed by the search engine bots.
     
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  3. Nima

    Nima Well-Known Member

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    Are you trying to create a robot.txt for a stand alone website? What website?

    With robot.txt you can prevent search engines bots to crawl certain parts of your website. and of course to tell them where to crawl (but they are pretty good at finding the pages on their own)....
     
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  4. Audiomad

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    see stoping them from crawling my site is a problem there is so many pages how do I pick which ones its for My Forum certain parts of the site have no follow tags so can these parts of the site be left out of it?
     
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  5. Nima

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    yes they can, You can stop a whole /directory/ of the site from being crawled.
     
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  6. Audiomad

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    Is this right? I used a free generator do I still need to find all the pages with no follow tags and enter them or will they still follow the no follow rule?

      
    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: MSNBot
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Slurp
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Teoma
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Gigabot
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Scrubby
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Robozilla
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: Nutch
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: baiduspider
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: yahoo-mmcrawler
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: psbot
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: asterias
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: yahoo-blogs/v3.9
    Disallow: 
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: 
    Disallow: /cgi-bin/
    Sitemap: http://www.websiteforumz.com/sitemap.xml
    Sitemap: http://www.websiteforumz.com/generator/data/sitemap.html
    Sitemap: http://www.websiteforumz.com/generator/data/urllist.txt
    Sitemap: http://www.websiteforumz.com/ror.xml
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Code (markup):
     
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  8. Audiomad

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    what sitemaps should I add the the robots.txt file? I have 4 above should all these be put into it?
     
    Audiomad, Jul 10, 2007 IP
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