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Discussion in 'robots.txt' started by warley, Mar 11, 2008.

  1. #1
    If a site had the following robots.txt file what would this mean exactly i have been told this site is disallowing links is this true?

    User-agent: ia_archiver
    Disallow: /
    
    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /frli.htm
    Disallow: /frre.htm
    Disallow: /passw
    Disallow: /ref
    Disallow: /lin
    Disallow: /free
    Disallow: /cgi
    Disallow: /impressum.htm
    Disallow: /topframebwinticker.htm
    Disallow: /send
    Disallow: /mail
    Disallow: /ext
    Disallow: /lin
    Disallow: /lm
    Disallow: /sgi
    Disallow: /bg
    Code (markup):
    Any help appreciated
     
    warley, Mar 11, 2008 IP
  2. nessie

    nessie Active Member

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    Looks like they don't like Google :)

    They are blocking Google spider from accessing those files & directories listed after "User-agent: Googlebot"

    ia_archiver is alexa's bot. It's blocked for the whole site.
     
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    warley Peon

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    Oh dear fair enough thanks a lot for that.
     
    warley, Mar 11, 2008 IP