Google Indexing Robots.txt Files? - Advanced Forum Thread

Google Indexing Robots.txt Files? - Advanced Forum Thread
In today’s forum thread of the week, it was actually ME who had a question! I noticed that our robots.txt file had been indexed by Google and was curious if others had ever had this happen.

Blocking Complicated URLs with Robots.txt

Blocking Complicated URLs with Robots.txt
If you have a large web site you might have some content that you do not want the search engines to index — perhaps for duplicate content reasons or you simply don t want someone casually stumbling across it. You know you can use robots.txt but what if you need to block thousands of pages or block only certain files within a folder This article will explain some of the more advanced uses of robots.txt. You will even learn how to block dynamic pages …

Using Robots.txt to Control Search Engines

Using Robots.txt to Control Search Engines
Robots.txt is a text file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt implements the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which allows you as a web manage…

What On Earth Is A Search Engine Algorithm?

Each search engine has something called an algorithm which is the formula that each search engine uses to evaluate web pages and determine their relevance and value when crawling them for possible inclusion in their search engine. A crawler is the robot that browses all of these pages for the search engine. Read more