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Help Understanding Robots.txt basic commands

Discussion in 'robots.txt' started by sarahturned, Dec 30, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I'd like to clean up some of the duplicate content on some of my blogs.

    What would be the difference between these three commands in robots.txt

    Disallow: /tag/

    and

    Disallow: /tag/*

    and

    Disallow: */tag/

    Thank you
     
    sarahturned, Dec 30, 2010 IP
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    fear Banned

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    As Cipals said, /tag/ and /tag/* work the same way, they both restrict all urls starting from tag directory. This command Disallow: /*/tag/ will be used to block all urls that do have tag at the second level on their urls like http://yourdomain.com/abc/tag/pqr.html etc
     
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    Try using plugin robot.txt.. :)
     
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    its tag of robots.txt for show no follow link
     
    brad.smith4321, Apr 19, 2011 IP