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darkroom
Msg#:1528499
11:42 pm on Dec 2, 2002
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Hey there people
just have a general question. What is robots.txt and do we have to have robots.txt in our web hosting server?
thanks
sunny
Quinn
Msg#:1528500
11:44 pm on Dec 2, 2002
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Not nescesarily.
Here's a good introduction:
[
searchengineworld.com
...]
BlobFisk
Msg#:1528501
9:50 am on Dec 3, 2002
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In my experience this is a file you would have to create yourself - no hosting company I have ever used has had a robots.txt file in place for me.
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