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On using the robots.txt file to tell the search engine spiders and crawlers which directories and files to include, and which to avoid.

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The robots.txt file is placed in your www or public_html directory and indicates how

# Robots.txt file from http://www.xiaonei.com # All robots will spider the domain . User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /profile.do* Disallow: /getuser.do*

Disallow: /cashback. Disallow: /challenge. Disallow: /community/forums/tags. Disallow: /community/login.aspx? Disallow: /history. Disallow: /images/search?

### BEGIN FILE ### # PayPal robots.txt file # Allow Google to spider the PayPal site. User-agent: GoogleBot. Disallow: /xclick-auction/ # Allow MSN to spider the PayPal site

I am increasingly coming across people who think robots.txt file can be used to prevent search engine crawlers from crawling sensitive data in their websites.

The robots.txt file will also help other search engines traverse your Web site while excluding entry to areas not desired. To facilitate this, many Web robots offer facilities for ...

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Google and Inktomi spiders were indexing my forum pages and using lots of bandwidth, so I included a robots.txt file in my root directory: User-agent: * Disallow: /forum ...