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Robots.txt issue with indexation

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profesia Subscriber last edited by

Hello

i have a problem with one of the rules for robots.txt

i have a multilingual mutation of entire page on www.example.com/en/

I want to make indexable /allow/ the main page under /en/

but not indexable /disallow/ everything else under /en/*

Please help me how to write the rule.
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SEOKeith @profesia last edited by

Well put the rest of the content in a different directory then and disallow that, thats the only other solution I can think of...
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profesia Subscriber @SEOKeith last edited by

There is no option like

/en/index.html

The only adress where you can reach the english main page version is www.example.com/en/
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SEOKeith last edited by

Name the page you want indexing something and you can use the following:

Disallow: /en/

Allow: /en/index.html

Always test robots.txt in google webmaster tools.

Hope that helps,

Keith
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