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  • Web Designer Perth
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    robots.txt - help Link to this post

    This has been asked in the past with no conclusive answer.

    What would be sensible content? Can anyone up' an example?

    Much appreciated.

  • Ben Gribaudo
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  • Web Designer Perth
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    Re: robots.txt - help Link to this post

    Generally, they do. So thank you.

    But I was seeking a SS-specific example / recommendations.

  • Ben Gribaudo
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    Re: robots.txt - help Link to this post

    Is there something specific you're trying to accomplish? Generally, I think a normal SS install should be fine without a robots.txt file unless you wanted to do something like http://silverstripe.com/robots.txt.

  • Sam
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    Re: robots.txt - help Link to this post

    Perhaps we should bundle a default robots.txt file with the installer?

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /admin
    Disallow: /assets

  • Ben Gribaudo
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    Re: robots.txt - help Link to this post

    Sounds like a good idea, Sam.

    Not sure if assets/ should be included in the exclusion list, though. I can see some people liking it there because they don't want their assets showing up in search engines separately from the pages holding those assets. On the other hand, there are those who want their assets to be indexed so that they will show up in things like Google image search. The "assets/" directive would prevent that.

    Ben

  • Benedikt
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    Disallowing assets doesn't make sense to me since there might be pdf or txt files which are useful content for search engines.
    It would make sense to disallow cache flushing by search engines:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /admin
    Disallow: /?flush

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