Have I been blocking Altavista spider from spidering my site?

[irock]

I have the following in my robots.txt

User-agent: scooter
Disallow: /

Have I been blocking Altavista spider from spidering my site?

Thanks!

[Robino]

Looks like it.

[ncw164x]

Yes you have stopped scooter from accessing your site

A few examples of what you would put in your robots.txt file

To exclude all robots from parts of the server
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /misc/sitestats/

This indicates that nothing is disallowed and the spider can follow all links
User-agent: *
Disallow:

To allow a single robot complete access and exclude all others
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This would prevent your entire web site from being indexed
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

hope this helps

ncw164x

[sem4u]

Yes it does.

ncw164x has given you some good advice there about robots.txt

[irock]

Now that I have 'invited' Scooter. When will Altavista put me back on the index?

Thanks!

[ncw164x]

Hard to say, keep checking your site stats for any sign of scooter

ncw164x