what does this mean?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

this is what shows up in my webmaster tools for my site. Does this mean the robots cant search? What exactly is this? lol

 

that means you have a folder called search and your robots.text file asking robots not to search that folder.

 

Sounds about right!

Though not exactly.

You most likely have a file on your server called robots.txt (not in a folder as such) that has some crazy command that disallows spiders from accessing your site (supposedly - though I say supposedly in an offhand way as it does actually work in cases)

So what you need to do is this >

Fetch that file onto your local machine (That's your PC, Mac or whatever) and edit it to say something like >

User-agent: *
Disallow:

# too many repeated hits, too quick
User-agent: litefinder
Disallow: /

# Yahoo. too many repeated hits, too quick
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /

# too many repeated hits, too quick
User-agent: Baidu
Disallow: /

Code (markup):

Then reload the page and you should be good to go.

There are other commands that may be of use - perhaps others will digress and diversify?

 

It does not allow Search Engine crawl your search folder.

 

Hi, oleander

I think this would only mean all crawlers would not index your pages under /search directory if they are decent enough to obey the robots rules.

Have a nice day,

 

it is dissallow tag for spiders do not crawl your search folder.................

 

Disallow: /search

would ONLY block search engines indexing a file in your sites root directory called "search" with no file extension.

The ones saying it blocks a directory have not read your question correctly or do not understand *sigh*

if you wanted it to block the contents of the search directory on your server you would need to put
Disallow: /search/ ... with a / at the end !!

in your case, using one of your blogs as an example it would block

thecanadarealestatenews.blogspot.com/search?q=test

Code (markup):

ie a FILE called search

 

Search engine will not crawl the folder "Search" on the server. This is mentioned in the robots.txt file here.