Need advice on how to block certain page using robots.txt

On my game cheats site, www.tgdb.net, I have a "print" function, for each game platform.

For example, I have /pc/print.php , /psx/print.php

I'd like to use robots.txt to prevent bots from accesing these pages.

I think this would work but I'm afraid to add it before asking advice:

Dissallow : /*/print.php

I got this from http://www.imdb.com/robots.txt where they use it to block certain folders, not files.

So my question is, how would I enter a line in robots.txt, if possible, to prevent bots from downloading print.php in any subfolder of the main page, even if links have attributes ( example /pc/print.php?cheat=1000)

Thanks..

 

I've just looked at your robots.txt and I see you've not done anything about this yet. I would list the pages individually:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /pc/print.php
Disallow: /psx/print.php

etc

 

Thanks. That would surely work.

I've decided to do nothing about it at this moment because Google seems to like those pages and indexed all of them. I was initially afraid that it may think I have duplicate content or something like that.

Bandwith is not a problem at this moment .. so I'll let it "flow" for now..

Your answer is much appreciated

 

The following as far as I am aware

Disallow: /pc/print.php

Would not block the robot from accessing the page with query string parameters such as

/pc/print.php?cheat=1000

Let me know if anyone knows any different

 

good info. i tried it and it work. don't know this one.

 

i think

Dissallow : /*print.php*

will solve your poblem. google and yahoo support *

 

i have 7 error in my Google web master tool and i have requested google to remove those pages because they are not exist any more.
but google is saying i want to block these pages from robots.txt file as well.
if i exclude the following would work for me.

Dissallow : /category/jobs/marketing-jobs/
Dissallow : /category/jobs/human-recourse-jobs/
Dissallow : /seo-ranking-factors/
Dissallow : /category/jobs/sales-jobs/
Dissallow : /category/jobs/admin-jobs/
Dissallow : /category/jobs/finance-jobs/
Dissallow : /category/motivation/

Please advise.

 

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