Co-op and PDF

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by Web Gazelle, Jun 1, 2005.

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    I have a php page that creates PDFs for products. The Co-op ads will not work on this because it handles jpeg images and not gif images. What can I do to solve this?
     
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    Can you block the PHP script in your robots.txt file?
     
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    What is the user agent that I should use in the robots.txt file to block it?
     
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    Googlebot at the minimum.
     
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    Why would I want to block the googlebot from the php file? The issue is this site wont validate for co-op because the ads are not included on this page that creates PDF format product brochures.
     
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    The ad network uses the Google index to find random pages to validate.
     
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    Easiest IMO is to shift the PDF script to a folder outside the base URL tree.
     
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    I see what your saying now. I obviously don't want to block googlebot from the whole site but I could block it from that page. Googlebot does seem to like PDFs for some reason.
     
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    You can use robots.txt to block just a single page. For example, this is the robots.txt that www.digitalpoint.com uses:

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /tools/suggestion/?
Disallow: /search.php
    Code (markup):
     
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    I am going to disallow googlebot from that page. Thanks for your help and I will let you know if it still fails to validate for some reason.
     
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    I have disallowed the googlebot, so how long will it be before I can be validated?
     
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    So I just wait it out till it is dropped. Do you know approx. how long that could be?
     
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    Forever at the longest. Peole have seen years old cached files in Google. Best to use that removal request tool.
     
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    The removal request tool can make it happen the same day.
     
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    I will look into it, thanks.
     
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