jimbeetle - 9:15 pm on Oct 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

wires crossed

Yeah, mine. I thought you were the OP replying to my reply to the OP ;-).

I'm assuming that, in context, when msndude said, "if enough sites link to you, we'll index your site anyway -- [b]without crawling you[b]," he was referring to to a URL-only listing when the bot is excluded by robots.txt.

If your meta robots elements are correctly formed, and if you still see URL-only listings for those pages, it's probably time to drop a dime and send msndude some concrete examples.