Disallow Flash Files

Discussion in 'robots.txt' started by lowprofilejoe, Jan 4, 2008.

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    Is this the correct way to disallow all .swf files from inclusion?

     
    lowprofilejoe, Jan 4, 2008 IP
  2. Kuldeep1952

    Kuldeep1952 Active Member

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    I am not sure if you can disallow files by extension.
    You can achieve this by putting all the flash files in a
    folder and disallow that folder.
     
    Kuldeep1952, Jan 5, 2008 IP
  3. lowprofilejoe

    lowprofilejoe Active Member

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    anyone else? Is putting all flash in their own folder and disallowing the folder, the only answer? God, that'll be a nightmare
     
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    It makes sense to have different types of files in different folders from the start so that these kind of issues can easily be dealt with. I keep my CSS files under a "styles" folder, javascript can go under scripts or js, and so on.
     
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    Ladadadada Peon

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    The robots.txt "standard" is very limited. The only place it allows a wildcard is after the UserAgent: keyword.

    You can list every flash file on your site individually, wherever they are.

    I'm not aware of any bot that downloads flash files anyway. Have you found one ?
     
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  6. lowprofilejoe

    lowprofilejoe Active Member

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    Yes, Google will and does index swf files. Which sucks, because no ad units are being displayed, so people are viewing the swf without the html around it.
     
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    Just wanted to check and see if anyone else knew of another way. Moving all my flash files will be a nightmare.
     
    lowprofilejoe, Jan 8, 2008 IP
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    SwapsRulez Peon

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    Yes mate, all the newer & updated bots understands non stable standard extensions such as *... but you'll have problems with other bots that doesnt understands that concept...
    so you have two choices...
    1) Find out all the flash files & list them in the robots.txt with the each line giving one file name in the disallow tag.
    2) Move out your all flash files to one folder & disallow that perticular folder.

    Cheers mate... Peace!

    EDIT :
    Searched for google syntax... you have to write there

     
    SwapsRulez, Jan 12, 2008 IP