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Old September 1st, 2003, 08:48 PM
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No problem chech or is it non problemo? Any ways for your robots.txt file simply open notepad, wordpad or any text editor and type in this text:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

This tells the spider to not only spider your entire root but also for more advanced applications you can ban certain spiders (user agents) as well as stop them from taking certain folders and files like images.

An example of how to use this is

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/

This application would tell spiders not to spider your images folder.

js is short for Javascript and what it means to pack away your js (java script) in an external file is described here: http://www.pagerank-search-engine-o...our-header.html you call the same way you would call an attached CSS sheet (cascading style sheet)

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# Your: robots.txt
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User-agent: WebZip
Disallow: /

User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /

User-agent: b2w/0.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: Copernic
Disallow: /

User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Python-urllib
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: NetMechanic
Disallow: /

User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailSiphon
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebBandit
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailWolf
Disallow: /

User-agent: ExtractorPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: CopyRightCheck
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crescent
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProWebWalker
Disallow: /

User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LNSpiderguy
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla/3
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla/4
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla/5
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 98)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows XP)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 2000)
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver/1.6
Disallow: /

User-agent: Alexibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: MIIxpc
Disallow: /

User-agent: Telesoft
Disallow: /

User-agent: Website Quester
Disallow: /

User-agent: moget/2.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZip/4.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebSauger
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: NetAnts
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mister PiX
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebAuto
Disallow: /

User-agent: TheNomad
Disallow: /

User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
Disallow: /

User-agent: RMA
Disallow: /

User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
Disallow: /

User-agent: asterias
Disallow: /

User-agent: httplib
Disallow: /

User-agent: turingos
Disallow: /

User-agent: spanner
Disallow: /

User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
Disallow: /

User-agent: NICErsPRO
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511
Disallow: /

User-agent: DittoSpyder
Disallow: /

User-agent: Foobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SpankBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BotALot
Disallow: /

User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
Disallow: /

User-agent: lwp-trivial
Disallow: /

User-agent: BunnySlippers
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169
Disallow: /

User-agent: URLy Warning
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget/1.6
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /

User-agent: cosmos
Disallow: /

User-agent: moget
Disallow: /

User-agent: hloader
Disallow: /

User-agent: humanlinks
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkextractorPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mata Hari
Disallow: /

User-agent: LexiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Web Image Collector
Disallow: /

User-agent: The Intraformant
Disallow: /

User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: True_Robot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: JennyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
Disallow: /

User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
Disallow: /

User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebEnhancer
Disallow: /

User-agent: suzuran
Disallow: /

User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
Disallow: /

User-agent: VCI
Disallow: /

User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
Disallow: /

User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Openfind data gathere
Disallow: /

User-agent: Openfind
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu's
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus
Disallow: /

User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
Disallow: /

User-agent: RepoMonkey
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft URL Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Openbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: URL Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus Link Scout
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webster Pro
Disallow: /

User-agent: EroCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
Disallow: /

User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kenjin Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bookmark search tool
Disallow: /

User-agent: GetRight/4.2
Disallow: /

User-agent: FairAd Client
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gaisbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Aqua_Products
Disallow: /

User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorld Extractor
Disallow: /

User-agent: Flaming AttackBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerMan
Disallow: /

User-agent: searchpreview
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

//added// (most of the above crawlers are garbage - they do not do a thing for you). //added//
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Robot tags are not really required for "inclusion", bot naturally index all pages they find automatically.

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do you actually put all of those exclusions in your robots tag fathom or are you just providing examples?

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nm answered my own question checked your robots tag lol.

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backlinks

I would also say, check your backlinks ancor text and make sure they fit, if not, contact the webmaster and ask him to change it
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Very informative input (again from Mod) Fathom, thanks for that. One question for the new comers though; why block the robots/bots/spiders/diggers/drillers with the Disallow: / tag?

Some of them (robots) are country specisific directory (language, alphabet or some sort of image,culture,news, etc. based) providers/suppliers.

Wouldn't you suggest to use a Disallow: tag or maybe only to block the non important or do-not-want-to-be-spidered-directory instead of blocking some of the important bots?

I already know your answer to those questions, I just neeed your further input (similar to, one of your previous lenghtly posts here) on this subject to enlighten the new comers to SEO chat.

Thanks in advance...

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SEO Copywriting

Never ignore the power of words.

As search engines look for relevant words, text and description. It becomes very vital that your persuasive copy is keyword-rich and search engine friendly.

SEO copywriting can also boost your ranking if you are targeting highly competitive keywords.

Try it to believe it!

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Unhappy Great & very helpful Discussion...

Hi Friends

i am new to SEO can any one tell me how to target some keyword for search engine listing.

though i got Google PR 5 for www.mindcyclestudio.com

but still don't know how to give targeted keywords i.e., web design, print media etc., I hope u understand what i am trying to say,

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Simply great tips. And they go on and on. It's great to know so many people- sorry, PROFESSIONALS are out there willing to share their secrets!

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Images=Crawled=bad

Great tip for the Images Folder. Not many peopel actually realize that their iages folder does get crawled and indexed.

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No problem chech or is it non problemo? Any ways for your robots.txt file simply open notepad, wordpad or any text editor and type in this text:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

This tells the spider to not only spider your entire root but also for more advanced applications you can ban certain spiders (user agents) as well as stop them from taking certain folders and files like images.

An example of how to use this is

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/

This application would tell spiders not to spider your images folder.

js is short for Javascript and what it means to pack away your js (java script) in an external file is described here: http://www.pagerank-search-engine-o...our-header.html you call the same way you would call an attached CSS sheet (cascading style sheet)

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Hi all, I'm new here, but not that new to SEO.

Fathom, You stated the following earlier in the thread which I have been looking more and more into over the last few weeks with great interest.

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Additional ones... use title attributes particularly in links <a href="" title=""> </a> and the title precisely as the anchor > if image alt="" and title="" the same.

I was looking at using the title tag in the <A HREF=www.mydomain.com title="My Domain">My Domain</a> tags. How much weight would search engines give this? I tried it by optimising a few pages using this title tag and the pages are better ranked in Google (about 4 or 5 pages as a test). I don't know if this is just fluke or if it was because I named the page extensions differently but they are all seeming to do well compared to the others. I don't want to change much as I am ranking well in Yahoo. Averaging number 5/6 for my targeted keywords on Google.

I was also looking at the table summary command. Is there any point in adding this code? <TABLE SUMMARY="KeyWord"> - would this be classed as keyword stuffing and will it be penalised? The last thing I want is to get on the wrong side of big G.

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Hello,

Thank you for a nice tutorial. I will follow the advice above and try to learn as mu