Will this work?

Robots.txt

[CWebguy]

If I want to block SE's from a particular directory, can I do this?

Let's say I want www.example.com/widgets directory to be indexed, and also www.examples.com/blue but not www.example.com/blue/widgets, is this exceptable?

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /blue/widgets/

The reason I ask is I can't find an example that has two directories together, and I don't want to block out 'www.example.com/widgets' or 'www.examples.com/blue' at all, but just the combination.

Will this work?
Thanks.

[jdMorgan]

Robots.txt uses prefix-matching, so your directive will do what you say you want -- Assuming that the rest of the file (if any) is structured properly.

Jim

[CWebguy]

ok, just making sure because I couldn't find any example that had two directories on one line.

[Jonesy]

A followup question:

Would not

User-agent: *
Disallow: /blue/wi

accomplish the same thing as CWebguy desires -- with the added 'feature' of not revealing the actual sub-directory name(s) to the more scurrilous robots and spiders out there?

[g1smd]

It would.

With robots.txt you are disallowing all folder names that match the pattern from the left.

[seosemlive]

I think it would work