Hello, I want an expert who can create mybb forum robots.txt file which allows only forums and posts to be displayed in search engines. disallowing other pages like memberlist.php etc. gtalk :- kartarsingh015[@]gmail[.]com thank you.
Robots.txt file has default setting below. This setting allows your website to crawl by all search engines. user-agent:* Disallow: If you want to restrict some pages not to crawl by search engines then put the directory name like below example. user-agent:* Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /sign up These are simple settings of robots.txt file. thats all.
Check it.Note depending on your domain root,change "forum" User-Agent: * Disallow: /forum/captcha.php Disallow: /forum/editpost.php Disallow: /forum/misc.php Disallow: /forum/modcp.php Disallow: /forum/moderation.php Disallow: /forum/newreply.php Disallow: /forum/newthread.php Disallow: /forum/online.php Disallow: /forum/printthread.php Disallow: /forum/private.php Disallow: /forum/ratethread.php Disallow: /forum/report.php Disallow: /forum/reputation.php Disallow: /forum/search.php Disallow: /forum/sendthread.php Disallow: /forum/task.php Disallow: /forum/usercp.php Disallow: /forum/usercp2.php Disallow: /forum/calendar.php Disallow: /forum/*action=emailuser* Disallow: /forum/*action=nextnewest* Disallow: /forum/*action=nextoldest* Disallow: /forum/*year=* Disallow: /forum/*action=weekview* Disallow: /forum/*action=nextnewest* Disallow: /forum/*action=nextoldest* Disallow: /forum/*sort=* Disallow: /forum/*order=* Disallow: /forum/*mode=* Disallow: /forum/*datecut=* Disallow: /forum/fbcore/fbconnect.png Disallow: /forum/member.php?action=login Disallow: /forum/member.php?action=register Allow: /