Internet Marketing & Development » Blogs / CMS Systems http://www.your-propeller-head.com Tools / Services for Speakers, Consultants, Entrepreneurs, Virtual Assistants and Webmasters Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:39:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WordPress and Robots.txt http://www.your-propeller-head.com/wordpress-and-robots-txt.php http://www.your-propeller-head.com/wordpress-and-robots-txt.php#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:56:38 +0000 Propy http://your-propeller-head.com/?p=1116

The main purpose of the robots.txt is to help control where the search engines go in your website; by limiting access to certain folders or files, you can help to protect your content from appearing in search results and ensure the engines only read relevant content.

A robots.txt file can make a huge impact on your WordPress blogs traffic and search engine rank, be careful not to restrict access to too many areas of your site (unless you are certain you don’t want them to appear in search results – for example tele-seminar transcripts  that are sold on your site).

Keep in mind that if you mess up the robots.txt file by blocking too much, you could lose all of your rank and much of your trafffic.

This is a sample of an SEO optimized WordPress Robots.txt file.

The basics in editing your Robots.txt are as folllows:

Allow means the engines can follow/record the specified files and folders.
Dissallow means the engines are not allowed access to files or folders.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Gives access to the website’s root directory

Disallow: /cgi-bin
Prevents access to the cgi-bin folder used in most websites to run pearl or cgi scripts

Disallow: /wp-admin 
Prevents access to this WordPress system folder

Disallow: /wp-includes
Prevents access to this WordPress system folder

Disallow: /wp-content
Prevents access to this WordPress system folder

Disallow: somepage.htm
Prevents access to a specific page or file

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
Allows access to Google for display in image search results

#User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
#Disallow: /
Prevents the Wayback Machine from recording your websites content.  The # means the function is turned off.

For more information on Robots.txt visit WIKI or check out this article on AskApache.com.


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