What's in your robots.txt?

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  1. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    Post what forum script you use (vBulletin, IP.Board, MyBB, phpBB, etc.) and what your robots.txt file consists of (to block search engines from crawling unnecessary pages).
     
  2. Michael

    Michael Regular Member

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    vBulletin of course :P

    Code:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /ajax.php
    Disallow: /attachment.php
    Disallow: /calendar.php
    Disallow: /cron.php
    Disallow: /editpost.php
    Disallow: /global.php
    Disallow: /image.php
    Disallow: /inlinemod.php
    Disallow: /joinrequests.php
    Disallow: /login.php
    Disallow: /memberlist.php
    Disallow: /misc.php
    Disallow: /moderator.php
    Disallow: /newattachment.php
    Disallow: /newreply.php
    Disallow: /newthread.php
    Disallow: /online.php
    Disallow: /poll.php
    Disallow: /postings.php
    Disallow: /printthread.php
    Disallow: /private.php
    Disallow: /profile.php
    Disallow: /register.php
    Disallow: /report.php
    Disallow: /reputation.php
    Disallow: /search.php
    Disallow: /sendmessage.php
    Disallow: /showgroups.php
    Disallow: /subscription.php
    Disallow: /threadrate.php
    Disallow: /usercp.php
    Disallow: /usernote.php
    Disallow: /login.php?do=lostpw
    Disallow: /view.php?pg=advertise
    Disallow: /home.php
    Disallow: /arcade/
    Disallow: /arcade.php
    Disallow: /UTF/
    Disallow: /sexes/
    Disallow: /ads/
    Disallow: /cgi-bin/
    Disallow: /images/
    Disallow: /register/
    
    That is ours :D
     
  3. Bundy

    Bundy Admin Talk Staff

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    Did I already do this here...or am I going crazy?
     
  4. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    I think it was in another thread for something else. :lol:
     
  5. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

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    For MyBB

     
  6. Dunhamzzz

    Dunhamzzz Newcomer

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    You guys should have a sitemap entry in there too.
     
  7. tryfuhl

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    to disallow?
     
  8. Nick

    Nick Regular Member

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    No, to point out where exactly your sitemap is located. Look up "sitemap AutoDiscovery". ;)

    Add Sitemap To robots.txt For Autodiscovery
     
  9. Soliloquy

    Soliloquy Regular Member

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    Can you add more than one sitemap through the robots.txt? (And have it be recognized, that is.)
     
  10. Dan

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