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Old April 9th, 2008, 09:51 AM
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Need help with robots.txt
I put together a robots.txt file. Some of the free sites I go to say there is no problem while other sites say there is a problem. Here is my file, does anybody have any ideas. I want the whole site avaliable except those three directories.


User-Agent: *
Disallow: /script
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

sitemap: http://www.mysitemap.com/sitemap.xml
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As per the original spec for the robots.txt protocol, one the "Disallow:" operator is allowed. (It's an "exclusion" protocol).

This is the right way:
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Disallow: /script
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /admin


The sitemap line is not part of the spec. A validator will choke on this.
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Ew yes by last line I meant the "Allow" line. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

I didn't even consider the sitemap bit. Use Google Webmaster Central for that if you must
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