what if I block all robots with robots.txt?

connection with landing page Quality Score

[idolw]

I have several landing pages just for AdWords.
They contain duplicate content so I blocked robots from visiting these pages with robots.txt

I just realized that this may lead to poor quality score my landing pages get.
Can anyone confirm my suspicions?
thanks

[jtara]

Well, you need to let in the Adwords bot, otherwise they can't assign a quality score to the landing page. But it may not observe robots.txt, anyway, since I'd imagine your pointing your ad to the page is implied consent for the bot to visit your page. You definately don't want to block this with a firewall.

This is distinct from the regular Google bot.

Google has stated repeatedly that there is NO interaction between Adwords and organic search results. So, there should be no problem as long as you let the Adwords bot in.

[idolw]

oh, thanks a lot for your help jtara.
i will now run to find out to disallow everyone but the adwords bot

[jtara]

oh, thanks a lot for your help jtara.
i will now run to find out to disallow everyone but the adwords bot

I'm not sure if that was a sincere thank you or sarcasm.

If the latter, please don't expect to be spoon-fed here.

If people give you partial information, it's not to be mean. It's because they don't have the information at hand. Better a partial - and correct - answer than none at all or an incorrect one. Others will usually fill-in the missing information if you will give them time.

If I've misread - you're welcome!

[idolw]

I'm not sure if that was a sincere thank you or sarcasm

heh, it was a sincere thank you :)

[jtara]

I'd be good to post the details here once you have them.

[Off topic] We have some strange idioms in our language. (It's got to drive people crazy when they are trying to learn English!) One of them is that "Thanks a lot" almost never means "thanks a lot"! The latest one in a string of these (which has to have originated with "bad") with a similar theme is "nice", somewhat drawn-out when spoken. This one is even harder to deciper, because sometimes it actually DOES mean nice, even when spoken in the distinctive way in which it meant to mean "not nice". Or, more precisely, "not nice in some unique or creative way."

Anyway, you're welcome. A lot. :)