I'm trying to set it up where www.url.com/folder is disallowed, but www.url.com/folder/1 is allowed. I have it set up as follows:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder
Allow: /folder/*
which works when testing with the Google robots.txt tester, but if I look at the logs, I can see Googlebot hitting all of the urls other than /folder.
Am I missing something? Should allow go first?
I think this one should work:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder/$
Allow: /folder/*
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I'd like to disallow all subdirectories in my folder /search but allow indexing the search folder itself (I have content on /search).
Testing this does not work:
User-Agent: *
Allow: /search/
Disallow: /search/*
Your code appears correct. Try with a slight adjustment to Allow:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /search/*
Allow: /search/$
I am trying to disallow one page in subdirectory
I am using that robots.txt code is it
User-Agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /form.aspx
but the form.aspx is in processfolder and my url is showing like
www.yoursite.com/process/form.aspx
so how can I disallow form.aspx in robots.txt.
The format which is given above robots.txt: is it right?
please guide
If you want to block http://example.com/process/form.aspx and allow everything else, you can use:
# robots.txt on <http://example.com/robots.txt>
User-agent: *
Disallow: /process/form.aspx
Note that this would also block URLs like http://example.com/process/form.aspx.foo, http://example.com/process/form.aspx/bar, etc.
Im looking to disallow a subdirectory in my root folder but allow a folder within that.
What I have:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /admin
I want to allow /admin/images
Is this possible?
Try this. Give a try in robots.txt tester to avoid any negative impact.
Allow: /admin/images/
Disallow: /admin/
I have a site with the following structure:
http://www.example.com/folder1/folder2/folder3
I would like to disallow indexing in folder1, and folder2.
But I would like the robots to index everything under folder3.
Is there a way to do this with the robots.txt?
For what I read I think that everything inside a specified folder is disallowed.
Would the following achieve my goal?
user-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 0
Sitemap: <Sitemap url>
Allow: /folder1/folder2/folder3
Disallow: /folder1/folder2/
Disallow: /folder1/
Allow: /
Yes, it works... however google has a tool to test your robots.txt file
you only need to go on google webmaster tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/)
and open the section "site configuration -> crawler access"
All you would need is:
user-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 0
Sitemap:
Allow: /folder1/folder2/folder3
Disallow: /folder1/
Allow: /
At least googlebot will see the more specific allowing of that one directory and disallow anything from folder1 and on. This is backed up by this post by a Google employee.
Line breaks in records are not allowed, so your original robots.txt should look like this:
user-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 0
Sitemap: <Sitemap url>
Allow: /folder1/folder2/folder3
Disallow: /folder1/folder2/
Disallow: /folder1/
Allow: /
Possible improvements:
Specifying Allow: / is superfluous, as it’s the default anyway.
Specifying Disallow: /folder1/folder2/ is superfluous, as Disallow: /folder1/ is sufficient.
As Sitemap is not per record, but for all bots, you could specify it as a separate block.
So your robots.txt could look like this:
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 0
Allow: /folder1/folder2/folder3
Disallow: /folder1/
Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap
(Note that the Allow field is not part of the original robots.txt specification, so don’t expect all bots to understand it.)
should i then do
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
is it as simple as that?
or will that not crawl the files in the root either?
basically that is what i am after - crawling all the files/pages in the root, but not any of the folders at all
or am i going to have to specify each folder explicitly.. ie
disallow: /admin
disallow: /this
.. etc
thanks
nat
Your example will block all all the files in root.
There isn't a "standard" way to easily do what you want without specifying each folder explicitly.
Some crawlers however do support extensions that will allow you to do pattern matching. You could disallow all bots that don't support the pattern matching, but allow those that do.
For example
# disallow all robots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
# let google read html and files
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /*.html
Allow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /