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Mokita - 3:16 am on Dec 29, 2007 (gmt 0)


Marcia - I think Jim is referring to MSNbot failing to follow individual directions in robots.txt for its multiple bots - like msnbot-media, msnbot-news, msnbot-products etc. If you try to disallow those from crawling your site, it also has the effect of disallowing the generic msnbot and your site disappears from their index.

See this thread for more info:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Trying to restrict individual bots using robots.txt is not cloaking.


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