Arguments: A robots.txt file is an implied license, especially since you are aware of it. Thus, continuing to scrape their site could be seen as unauthorized access (i.e., hacking). Sucks, but arguments like this have been made in other legal cases recently (not directly related to robots.txt, but in relation to other “passive controls”.) Grabbing … Read more
Disallow: /thank-you-for-commenting$ in robots.txt Take a look at last.fm robots.txt file for inspiration. The dollar sign marks an end. We need that so other pages starting with the same url, for example /thank-you-for-commenting-another-page, will be indexed.
The way I see things: robots.txt contains information and instructions for robots (so it should be read/used by web crawlers, spiders and other kind of bots) humans.txt contains useful information to be consumed by humans, according to http://humanstxt.org/ hackers.txt should be targeted towards hackers, so it should contain any information the site owner might want … Read more
According to the Backus-Naur Form (BNF) parsing definitions in Google’s robots.txt documentation, the order of the Allow and Disallow directives doesn’t matter. So changing the order really won’t help you. Instead, use the $ operator to indicate the closing of your path. $ means ‘the end of the line’ (i.e. don’t match anything from this … Read more
The easiest way to allow access to just one page would be: User-agent: * Allow: /under-construction Disallow: / The original robots.txt specification says that crawlers should read robots.txt from top to bottom, and use the first matching rule. If you put the Disallow first, then many bots will see it as saying they can’t crawl … Read more
That file will allow all crawlers access User-agent: * Allow: / This basically allows all user agents (the *) to all parts of the site (the /).