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Forum: Sitemaps, Meta Data, and robots.txt
Category: The Search Engine World
Moderator: goodroi
Previous Moderator: ThomasB Overview:
The robots.txt exclusion standard is a method that some search engines will follow when building automated robots to mine the web for data.
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Topics directly related to robots.txt Related Robots.txt Info from Search Engine World
Robots.txt Tutorial [webmasterworld.com] with examples.
Robots Exclusion Meta Tag [webmasterworld.com] Using robots metatags.
Robots Exclusion Standard [webmasterworld.com] The current working draft proposal for the robots exclusion standard.
Robots.txt examples. You can use and modify (rename to robots.txt before using):
- robots1.text [webmasterworld.com] allows all robots.
- robots2.text [webmasterworld.com] bans/disallows all robots.
- robots3.text [webmasterworld.com] bans/disallows robots from your cgi-bin and images directories.
- robots4.text [webmasterworld.com] a comprehensive robots.txt file that only allows known "nice guy" spiders.
External Robots.txt Resource
Official Robots.txt Standard [robotstxt.org] Provides the official standard that search engines are asked to voluntarily follow.
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