[ic] HELP - Inktomisearch stuck on ord/basket.html page
Jamie Neil
jamie at versado.net
Mon Oct 25 19:27:00 EDT 2004
Andrew Rich wrote:
> I initially stopped it by adding an entry to robots.txt for
> /cgi-bin/cartname/ord/basket.html and this pushed it off the page.
>
> I then thought orders were reduced and removed the entry from
> robots.txt. Inktomisearch came back and became stuck on the page again.
I don't see any reason why adding pages (or directories) to your
robots.txt file would affect orders - this is the preferred way of
limiting spider activity on your site.
Use something like:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/cartname/ord/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/cartname/scan/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/cartname/login.html
As well as "ord" we also ban robots from our images directory (to stop
our graphics turning up in image searches), and "scan" to stop them
indexing "more" links.
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Jamie Neil | <jamie at versado.net> | 0870 7777 454
Versado I.T. Services Ltd. | http://versado.net/ | 0845 450 1254
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