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robots prohibited page has PR?

anyone experience this?

         

FillDeCube

9:05 am on Sep 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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i have visited a site with PR 5 on [domain.com...]

however, it is not cache in google and in its' robots.txt /directory/ is disallowed to visit by robot.

Anyone experience this?

doc_z

9:51 am on Sep 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The explanation is that links to this page are considered for PR calculation even if the page isn't (or not yet) in the index.

ciml

11:24 am on Sep 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Also, there's no reason for that URL to rank well for search phrases. /robots.txt exclusion does not ask for a URL not to be listed, only for it not to be fetched.