I am new to all of this about Spiders...Robot.txt

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[lightwriter]

Hi,

I am new to using the robot.txt with my site and though my questions may seem dumb to some of you, I'd greatly appreciate any assistance.

Do I have to list all of the different spiders in the robots.txt file?

Does anyone have a sample of what it should appear as?

What are the most effective approaches towards using robots.txt and spiders?

Thank you all for your assistance in this matter, I do appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Erik

[grnidone]

The only "dumb" question around here is the one that is not asked. Do not ever feel bad about asking a question.

Robots.txt tutorial [searchengineworld.com]

There are some excellent links at the bottom of that page as well.

The only spiders you need to list in your robots.txt file are those you *don't* want to come to your site: like email collectors.

-G

[Cronin]

Hi all.
This is my first posting, could you show me the text i would have to put in a robot.txt to stop e-mail spiders. thanks maddog
Thanks iv found it

[highman]

Could you post it please

[Cronin]

I have just had a look for my robot.txt on my site and gould not find it, gould some let me know where i would find this file, Thanks

[highman]

It should be in the root like:
[yoursite.com...]

[Cronin]

I have had a look at a Robots.txt Syntax Checking
on [tardis.ed.ac.uk...]

An Error occurred whilst fetching the robots.txt file

Not found

This is what i get every day on my log files.

Can you help

[grnidone]

Cronin,

I checked the robots.txt file on the website in your profile with this robots.txt validator:

[searchengineworld.com...]

and it said it was correct. Is that the site you are talking about?

-G