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Robots exclusion standard

The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is otherwise publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites, or by webmasters to proofread source code. The standard is unrelated to, but can be used in conjunction with, Sitemaps, a robot inclusion standard for websites.

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Encoding of the robots.txt file | hakre on wordpress

The old, rusty tech-monster from swamp, beloved robots.txt, that did prevent gaga-gone droids from DDOSsing your servers years ago, still has its place in SEO, SEM and generic robots access control today. A site shouldn't be run w/o ...

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Similar to a traditional English website, your Spanish website should be built free of coding errors, contain a robots.txt file and an XML sitemap. After all, if the search engines cannot fully access your website, due to design or ...

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robots.txt: Be aware that only the major search engine robots will support the "something*something" syntax. Others may treat this string as a literal, and therefore not recognize your meaning. Again, you can get rid of many of those ...

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Managing robots.txt using PHP: Generating Dynamic Syntax

Managing your robots.txt files can be tricky at the best of times. This article will show you how to use PHP to dynamically handle these files, thus relieving the webmaster of a tedious and time-consuming task. ...

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Search Marketing Bootcamp: Robots.txt File

Robots.txt files are often mentioned as being an important foundation of a search friendly web site. To site owners and small businesses who are new to search marketing, the robots.txt file can sound daunting. ...

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KeywordEnvy Tutorial #1: robots.txt

This week we show how to use your robots.txt file to prevent Google from indexing querystring params in their results. Use KeywordEnvy at www.keywordenvy.com

add sitemap tag to robots.txt

www.howtodowebmarketing.com How to add a sitemap to the robots.txt file for your website. This is important as its the only way of defining your sitemap to yahoo and Bing will complain if this line is not present within your websites robots.txt file. It goes without saying that unless your sitemap is found by the search engines your pages will struggle to be seen when people search.

Web Design Blog - Robots txt files explained

Nick from the Creare Group explain the use of a robots files to restrict search engine bots for individual files, folders and database queries.

Uncrawled URLs in search results

Matt Cutts explains why a page that is disallowed in robots.txt may still appear in Google's search results.

Should I block duplicate pages using robots.txt?

Halfdeck from Davis, CA asks: "If Google crawls 1000 pages/day, Googlebot crawling many dupe content pages may slow down indexing of a large site. In that scenario, do you recommend blocking dupes using robots.txt or is using META ROBOTS NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW a better alternative?" Short answer: No, don't block them using robots.txt. Learn more about duplicate content here: www.google.com