Thread: Robots.txt
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Old 10-27-2008, 09:05 AM  
Lycanthrope
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In a nutshell, robots.txt is used to tell spiders / crawlers what NOT to scan.

Not every robot obeys it however.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Would tell ALL robots not to look at any pages.

I recommend NOT using the example above.
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