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Robots.txt
ID #1018
How to block all robots from a certain folder
It may happen that you have certain sub directories that you don't want to be listed in the search engines. All major search engines that follow the REP , i.e. Yahoo, MSN and Google, and the promise not to index folders and files that are specifically mentioned on your robots.txt file. Here is an example to excluse subfolders /private/ /photos-saved/ and /images-fullsize/ from the search index,
User-agent: *By using User-agent: * it referes to the fact that all search engines should obey this request.
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /photos-saved/
Disallow: /images-fullsize/
Tags: seo, robots.txt, REP
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Last update: 2008-08-18 22:15
Author: Paul Savage
Revision: 1.0
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nice SEO FAQ