Correct or not this robots.txt for my task ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Ice_sCream, May 9, 2008.

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    How I can stop index my sites with robots.txt by Yahoo, msn, excite, all-the-web, altavista, alexa ?

    I make this - all is correct ?

    I need only Google and many local SE.
     
    Ice_sCream, May 9, 2008 IP
  2. Zafar Ahmed

    Zafar Ahmed Active Member

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    If you would like to not allow certain bots to index your pages, you can refer to bots by their name. For example, many webmasters prefer not to allow Google's Image Search or MSN's Pic Search bots to index any of the images on their site. So you would use the following.

    User-Agent field you list the name of the bot.
    Disallow field we use the forward slash / to prevent indexing.

    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: psbot
    Disallow: /
     
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  3. Ice_sCream

    Ice_sCream Peon

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    Zafar Ahmed, I know this. But I give my code - is it correct for search engines Yahoo, msn, excite, all-the-web, altavista, alexa ? I don't sure that I know thei bots correct name.
     
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    if your not sure about the bots name why not use *

    User-agent: *
     
    kevster1, May 9, 2008 IP
  5. Ice_sCream

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    kevster1, please think before write.
    I don't want to index by Yahoo, msn, excite, all-the-web, altavista, alexa. Not - ALL search engines.
    * - stop index by ALL SE !
     
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    ok thinking now thanks for the advice
     
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    Anybody on this board can answer me on this que ?
     
    Ice_sCream, May 15, 2008 IP
  8. manish.chauhan

    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    Use this code in your robots.txt


    User-agent: Slurp //For yahoo bot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: msnbot // For MSN bot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: ArchitextSpider //For Exite bot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: FAST //For Alltheweb bot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Scooter //For Altavista Bot
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: ia_archiver //For Alexa Bot
    Disallow: /


    // now allow rest of search engines

    User-agent: *
    Disallow:
     
    manish.chauhan, May 15, 2008 IP
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