Robots.txt

Apache 1.3 Hits End of Life at 42 (Don't Panic!) (Linux Today) | Thursday, February 04th, 2010
Netstat -vat: "As of today the Apache 1.3 HTTP Server is at its official End of Life with its 1.3.42 release, eight years after its successor Apache 2 debuted."

The Latest On Google News Sitemaps (Search Engine Land) | Monday, February 01st, 2010
Back in November 2009, Google News announced they were “in the midst of an exciting transition period” that included a change to the News Sitemap Protocol . News publishers have through April 2010 to modify their News Sitemap to accommodate the new format. What’s so exciting and transitional?

Duplicate Content Between HTML & PDF Pages? Google Should Figure It Out (Search Engine Roundtable) | Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion about a potential duplicate content issues between HTML and PDF documents. In this case, the content found on the HTML is the same as on the PDFs. Be it an automated "print as PDF" feature or manual download of the content in PDF format. How does Google handle the duplicate nature of such content available on the web? JohnMu at Google chimed in ...

New Google Reader Feature Can Create a Feed for Any Site (WebProNews) | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Google has launched a new feature for Google Reader that lets users create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed. In other words, you can follow changes to any site. "These custom feeds are most useful if you want to be alerted whenever a specific page has been updated," says Google's Brian Shih. "For example, if you wanted to follow Google.org's latest products ...

Taking Front End SEO to the Next Level (Search Engine Journal) | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
I can't recall how many times a prospective client has come along where my initial thought was "wow - this one's going to take 250 hours of SEO to get them to even compete with all the sites that have been there for years". Sometimes that turns out to be the case, while at other times, the majority of… Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Taking Front End SEO to the Next Level

Video SEO Is A Gold Mine -- Here's How It Works - The Business Insider | Monday, February 08th, 2010
In the fuzzy-wuzzy world of marketing ROI, SEO has long held a reputation as the most difficult, unpredictable, and potentially most lucrative areas of marketing spend. Google’s search indexing algorithms are a closely-guarded secret , and their ...

5 Powerful Ways to Use Google Reader’s Feed Creation Tool for SEO - Searchengine Journal | Monday, February 08th, 2010
You may have noticed that two weeks ago Google announced a new feature for Google Reader : the ability to create/track RSS feeds for pages that don’t provide them. There’s a lot of potential here in just about every aspect of web use ...

SEO Company India - SEO Services, Google SEO, Web SEO - PRLog (free press release) | Monday, February 08th, 2010
Opal Infotech withstands the business competition through specialized website optimization services. We research your targeted key words and optimize your website basing on the most used keywords to search your product or services in your industry ...

Building An Optimised Website - PRLog (free press release) | Thursday, February 04th, 2010
PR Log (Press Release) – Feb 04, 2010 – Building a new website is a great opportunity to make sure that the whole site is as optimised as possible, ensuring that straight out of the starting block your site will get great results and work its way ...

The Latest On Google News Sitemaps - Searchengineland.com | Monday, February 01st, 2010
Back in November 2009, Google News announced they were “in the midst of an exciting transition period” that included a change to the News Sitemap Protocol . News publishers have through April 2010 to modify their News Sitemap to accommodate the ...

How to: Protect Your Website Using robots.txt, Part 2 - eSecurity Planet | Wednesday, February 03rd, 2010


How to: Protect Your Website Using robots.txt, Part 2 eSecurity Planet In the first installment in this series, we looked at creating a robots.txt file to manage how search engine Web crawlers (or “spiders”) ...

Mark Cuban Warns of Vampires - Internet Evolution | Tuesday, February 02nd, 2010


Mark Cuban Warns of Vampires Internet Evolution Cuban urged the news Websites to utilize the "robots.txt" code to ban aggregators from crawling for content, saying that if it doesn't work they could ... and more »

SEO: Don't Duplicate, Innovate - SEO Consult (blog) | Tuesday, February 02nd, 2010


SEO: Don't Duplicate, Innovate SEO Consult (blog) Examine the possible solutions below: You can use a robots.txt file to exclude a duplicated version from showing up in results pages. ... and more »

The Latest On Google News Sitemaps - Search Engine Land (blog) | Monday, February 01st, 2010


The Latest On Google News Sitemaps Search Engine Land (blog) It is equally important that your robots.txt file allows access by Googlebot-News. “The easiest way to do this is to configure your webservers to not serve ...

7 Tips to Get Top Organic Results for Your Website - BigNews.biz (press release) | Thursday, January 28th, 2010


7 Tips to Get Top Organic Results for Your Website BigNews.biz (press release) Make sure you include the Robots.txt tag. Don't downplay with the importance of Meta tags. An xml sitemap make crawling easier for search engines and index ... and more »

Seo Question About The …? « SEY | Monday, February 08th, 2010
(But honestly no one really knows). If you have links on your framed page you also want to use 'nofollow'. However, VERY few robots use the robots meta tag and you would be better off putting it in robots.txt ...

Basic SEO with MyBB | Wuvee | Monday, February 08th, 2010
Another important task is creating a robots.txt file to prevent unnecessary crawling. Lucky for those of us who are new to SEO, frostschutz has also included an example robots.txt for us. The only thing you need to change is the sitemap ...

Venture Capitalist MCs: robots.txt | Monday, February 08th, 2010
I made my millions short-selling at the peak of the coke-rap bubble. 2.08.2010. robots.txt. Curious to see how quickly this gets crawled and spammed... vcmc.blogspot@inboxiness.com. - posted by vcmc @ 2/08/2010 01:45:00 PM ...

Il quiz di Google: ecco le risposte | lo ZIO PROfessionista del web | Sunday, February 07th, 2010
d) Disallow the folder in robots.txt and request removal of the whole folder in Webmaster Tools. You need to prevent Google from indexing any content in the new folder /private-files/. What's the best way to do this? ...

otes From "SEO Best Practices for the Drupal.org Redesign" Webinar | Sunday, February 07th, 2010
Website Robots.txt File. Exclude content that should not be search indexed via the robots.txt file. Disallow search indexing if the site goes up on the Web before it's ready, again via robots.txt. Correct any error in your robots.txt ...

Robots exclusion standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | 
robots.txt was popularized with the advent of AltaVista, the first popular search engine. ... There is no official standards body or RFC for the robots.txt protocol. ...

Robots.txt Information | 
Information on the robots.txt and how it effects your website. Also includes a free robots.txt generator

Robots.txt Generator - McAnerin International Inc. | 
robots.txt generator designed by an SEO for public use. Includes tutorial. ... The robots.txt is a very simple text file that is placed on your root directory. ...

Creating and Using a robots.txt File | 
A robots.txt is a file placed on your server to tell the various search engine spiders not to crawl or index certain sections or pages of your site. ...

Robots.txt Information | 
It is not enforced by anybody, and there no guarantee that all current and future robots will use it. ... This file must be accessible via HTTP on the local URL "/robots.txt" ...

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The Web Robots Pages - Monday, February 01st, 2010
The /robots.txt checker can check your site's /robots.txt file and meta tags. The IP Lookup can help find out more about what robots are visiting you..

Robots exclusion standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Saturday, February 06th, 2010
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 ....

The Web Robots Pages - Sunday, February 07th, 2010
# robots.txt for http://www.example.com/ User-agent: * Disallow: /cyberworld/map/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space # Cybermapper knows where to go..

Robots.txt Generator - McAnerin International Inc. - Saturday, February 06th, 2010
robots.txt generator designed by an SEO for public use. Includes tutorial..

Robots.txt and Search Indexing - Search Tools Report - Sunday, February 07th, 2010
Information on using the robots.txt file to keep web crawlers, spiders and robots from indexing certain sections of a site..

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Ontario Lawyers Formally Prosecuted by the LSUC - Thursday, February 04th, 2010
The Law Society of Upper Canada uses robots.txt to exclude search engines from its database of formal actions against lawyers. Lawyers found guilty of breaking the rules of Ontario's legal profession ....

ROBOTS.TXT FOR SEO 4 SMF - Thursday, February 04th, 2010
Best robots.txt for seo 4 smf . SMF ROBOTS.TXT FOR SEO 4 SMF.

Spiders, crawlers, robots. Oh My! - Saturday, January 30th, 2010
A quick look at searchbots and the robots.txt file..

FAIL: Newspapers block aggregator site using robots.txt - Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The Daily Mirror joins a growing number of newspapers that block news aggregator NewsNow from trawling their websites. - But expect the block to work by using a robots.txt - which presumably unknown ....

ROBOT.TXT Protocol | Nyak Neea - Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Sewaktu saya (Nyak Neea) submit sitemap ke google webmaster tool, dan saya tunggu untuk membukanya hari berikutnya kok ada yang bikin saya penasaran. Yaitu kata.

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A Deeper Look At Robots.txt - Monday, February 08th, 2010
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Block or remove pages using a robots.txt file - Webmaster Tools Help - Monday, February 08th, 2010
Can block current sitemap (which is outdated), login, secure pages and www landing pages in the robots.txt file. Think we can also submit the blog here. :).

Un inform�tico en el lado del mal: Robots.txt & sitemap.xml - Monday, February 08th, 2010
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Re: Handling robots.txt in a ZF application - msg#00216 - php.zend.framework.mvc - Monday, February 08th, 2010
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Open Question: Is PicScout really spying on people? - Sunday, February 07th, 2010
I manage several websites for various clients and have several anti-hacking measures in place on the sites I manage. Some of these measures include hidden files that track who does what. A normal pe....

Voting Question: Why is google indexing every thing on my website except for my home page? - Wednesday, February 03rd, 2010
If i put my website address into the search bar, all that comes up is everything but my homepage, like my contact us page, privacy policy, and seperate posts. I do some blogging and article writing....

Resolved Question: What is this mean "Crawler access"? - Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
robots.txt file http://www.XXXXXXX.com/robots.txt this code is in my google webmaster tool's Crawler access section. In above code, if we want to remove robots.txt, then i think we have to go to ....

Resolved Question: URGENT. how to unblock site content that is blocked by robot.txt file in google webmaster tool? - Monday, January 25th, 2010
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Resolved Question: Why Won't Google Spider All My Web Pages? - Wednesday, January 06th, 2010
I have a large website... with over 100,000 pages. I did a search to see how many google has indexed and it is 10...??? Why so little. The site is 11 months old... How can I get google to spider....