Topic: Robots.txt
Robots.txt Stories
News Web Sites Seek More Search Control
November 28, 2007
Currently, Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other top search companies voluntarily respect a Web site's wishes as declared in a text file known as robots.txt, which a search engine...
Details on Proposed Search Controls
November 28, 2007
Under the formal rules for robots.txt, a Web site may refuse indexing of the entire site, specific directories or specific pages. However, some search engines have interpreted...
Webmasters May Shape Search Results
November 28, 2007
A programmer can use a robots.txt file to police the crawlers trying to access a site. It's not that the search engines are better, but it's the people out there making policy...
News websites propose more control over use by search engines
November 29, 2007
Currently, Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other top search companies voluntarily respect a website's wishes as declared in a text file known as robots.txt, which a search engine...
BREITBART. COM - Court to Hear Google- Newspaper Fight
November 24, 2006
Powell said the Internet search company strenuously tries to give newspapers the opportunity to be excluded from the site if they want, by telling the robots.txt information...
BREITBART. COM - Court to Hear Google- Newspaper Fight
November 23, 2006
Powell said the Internet search company strenuously tries to give newspapers the opportunity to be excluded from the site if they want, by telling the robots.txt information...
BREITBART. COM - Court to Hear Google- Newspaper Fight
November 23, 2006
Powell said the Internet search company strenuously tries to give newspapers the opportunity to be excluded from the site if they want, by telling the robots.txt information...
Robots.txt Tweets
@wptavern wouldn't using robots.txt for that only work for bots that are good and listen to it? Maybe .htaccess has something suitable?
by darren_fianno, March 18, 2010
@wpseek yeah, doing research, looks like that's as good as it gets. Plus, some spiders/bots ignore robots.txt :P
by wptavern, March 18, 2010
RT @zegron: RT @webseoanalytics: #SEO Tip:Pages blocked in robots.txt continue receiving PageRank when they have links #google #bing #yahoo
by eMerchants, March 18, 2010