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BillyS

msg:1529306 | 3:56 am on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0) | I just consolidated several sections and I don't want crawlers to index those pages (removed) anymore. The old URL was of the form: www.sitename.com/section/7/14/ www.sitename.com/section/7/21/ If I put in this: Disallow: /7/ That should stop indexing of these pages (right?)
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MarkHutch

msg:1529307 | 4:16 am on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0) | From your example your robots.txt file should say.. Disallow: /section/7/ If the section is a real subdirectory. If it's not t hen you are correct. Mark
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Dijkgraaf

msg:1529308 | 8:52 pm on Nov 14, 2005 (gmt 0) | MarkHutch is correct, but you would be even better of having Disallow: /section/7 without the traling slash, this is just in case there was a link pointing to that directory that served the default page. That of course is as long as there isn't another directory e.g /section/71 that you still want indexed :-)
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