Questions tagged [robots.txt]
Convention to prevent webcrawlers from indexing your website.
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How to create robots.txt file for all domains on Apache server
We have a XAMPP Apache development web server setup with virtual hosts and want to stop serps from crawling all our sites. This is easily done with a robots.txt file. However, we'd rather not ...
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How Can I Encourage Google to Read New robots.txt File?
I just updated my robots.txt file on a new site; Google Webmaster Tools reports it read my robots.txt 10 minutes before my last update.
Is there any way I can encourage Google to re-read my robots....
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How to block Spiders / Scrapers by REMOTE hostname / domain for all Virtual Hosts in Apache?
I've seen plenty of robot.txt stuff, and some mod-rewrite solutions that looked promising… but haven't been able to find a simple solution to block Spiders / Scrapers / whoever the hell I want to ...