quick robots.txt question

[mike2010]

this tells google not to index anything after my domain url that's followed by a ? right ?

Disallow: /?

like if it was mysillydomain.com/?php=somecrappyphpstuff

this stuff wouldn't get indexed anymore ?

I'd also like to block the same with .htaccess.. or to tell google to not access those anymore. (since their garbage url's anyway) but since their php dynamic URL's...they don't listen to "301 REDIRECT" in .htaccess

[phranque]

You can exclude googlebot from crawling that content using robots.txt but this will not control indexing.
Also note that when you exclude a bot from requesting a URL then whatever you do in .htaccess is irrelevant.

[tangor]

To carry phrangque's thought further, if you really need to 301 something in .htaccess, do NOT disallow it in robots.txt.

[lucy24]

they don't listen to "301 REDIRECT" in .htaccess

A robot-- any robot, whether it's the world's leading search engine or a passing Ukrainian-- isn't obliged to follow a redirect. It can come back later, or not at all. But it can't ignore the redirect and barge on in to the originally requested URL. Redirects, unlike robots.txt, don't work on the honor system.

[mike2010]

You can exclude googlebot from crawling that content using robots.txt but this will not control indexing.
Also note that when you exclude a bot from requesting a URL then whatever you do in .htaccess is irrelevant.

I need like 5 minutes to analyze that...

Why must they behave so awkwardly..

So I guess I must remove the URL's first in webmaster tools, and then Robots it up?

also, the

Disallow: /?

won't 'exclude' everything right? Just URL's that begin with a question mark immediately after the domain ?

[g1smd]

The pattern is to be treated as "begins with...".