Robots.txt
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Hi everyone,
I just want to check something. If you have this entered into your robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /fred/This wouldn't block /fred-review/ from being crawled would it?
Thanks
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Ensure there are no re-writes active that may forward traffic from /fred/ to /fred-review/ and you should be good.
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/fred-review/ would be fine, as long as they are a separate directory you should have no problems.
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