Robots.txt and joomla
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Hello,
I use joomla for my website and automatically all those files are blocked is that good or bad, so I remove anything and if so why ?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/I also added to my robots.txt files my email address ( is that useful, I am afraid google passes PR to the email address )
and a javascript: void (0) because I have tabs on my webpage ( is that useful )
as well as a .pdf ( is it also useful )any comments ? does anything need to be changed or is it ok ?
Thank you,
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It let your image be found for Google or other Search Engines. If not remove that line, none images will be show on serps. I don't know why Joomla gives robots.txt as this, but you need to change it.
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Is removing the / image / better in terms of SEO bercause of the lat tags etc... or just people to find my website via the images ?
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You must remove the line
Disallow: /images/
and let you images to be found.
I hope this can help you
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