BarkerJr
msg:1529626 | 2:38 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0) |
For the "how", check out [searchengineworld.com...] For the list of spiders you don't like, you have to decide that yourself. I block:
vscooter (Altavista Images)
fast
Googlebot-Image
These are bots that attempt to cache my images, which I don't like. Other people block other bots.
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keeper
msg:1529627 | 3:01 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0) |
I find the webmasterworld robots.txt file useful as a guide.
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jdMorgan
msg:1529628 | 3:51 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0) |
As an alternative to blocking a useful robot such as fast, you can also put all of your "proprietary" images into a subdirectory, and then disallow that subdirectory. Example:
User-agent: fast
Disallow: /images/
Jim
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BarkerJr
msg:1529629 | 4:21 am on Feb 27, 2004 (gmt 0) |
| I refuse to redesign my website for a bot I've never heard of coded by people who don't care about users who don't want their images indexed. I emailed fast and asked them how to stop the bot from collecting images but have it still collect html. They replied with the robots.txt code to disallow /. I emailed google and asked them the same thing. One month later they introduced the google-image agent. Obviously Google cares about webmasters and fast doesn't.
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Pinetree
msg:1529630 | 5:08 pm on Mar 1, 2004 (gmt 0) |
I have 5 domain names all pointing to the same site. Can I include all 5 URLs on the same robots.txt file?
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