noindex and nofollow mean that you do not want any search engines like Google to crawl your website. So, simply put the following code into your robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: / It means noindex and nofollow.
Yes, robots.txt should not be served by Django if the file is static. Try something like this in your Nginx config file: location /robots.txt { alias /path/to/static/robots.txt; } See here for more info: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#alias Same thing applies to the favicon.ico file if you have one. The equivalent code for Apache config is: Alias /robots.txt /path/to/static/robots.txt
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
Yes it is possible to have more than one sitemap-index-file: You can have more than one Sitemap index file. Highlight by me. Yes it is possible to list multiple sitemap-files within robots.txt, see as well in the sitemap.org site: You can specify more than one Sitemap file per robots.txt file. Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap-host1.xml Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap-host2.xml Highlight … 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
Use Package Control to install the syntax packages you want to use. If you’re using Sublime Text without Package Control, you’re missing out on a lot. Install Package Control (follow the linked instructions) After restarting, type Command+Shift+P then Install Package Install ApacheConf and the Robot Framework you mentioned Packages can be added and removed very … 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
The https://github.com/robots.txt file of GitHub allows the indexing of the blobs in the ‘master’ branch, but restricts all other branches. So if you don’t have a ‘master’ branch, Google is not supposed to index your pages. How to remove the ‘master’ branch: In your clone create a new branch – let’s call it ‘main’ and … Read more