blocking certain files with robots.txt?

[htdawg]

Hi,

I have a directory and for each catagory there is a link (add url for each cat) I see that google is indexing this link for each catagory i.e www.mysite.com/dir/add_url.php?c=5
c=6
c=7 rct...
Is there a way to block each add url link from being indexed with robots txt without going through the whole site & copy pasting each url to my robots.txt file

thanks

[OutdoorMan]

This should do the job:

Disallow: /*/add_url.php$

[htdawg]

Thanks OutdoorMan!

[g1smd]

That will only block stuff that ends with .php exactly.

If you need to block stuff with appended query strings, too, then remove the $ from the end of the rule.

[Receptional Andy]

If 'dir' is a constant part of the URL, then all that's needed is

Disallow: /dir/add_url.php

Note that this will mean no version of add_url.php will appear in search results.