Robots.txt - Allow and Disallow. Can they be the same?
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Hi All,
I need some help on the following:
Are the following commands the same?
User-agent: *
Disallow:
or
User-agent: *
Allow: /
I'm a bit confused. I take it that the first one allows all the bots but the second one blocks all the bots.
Is that correct?
Many thanks,
Aidan
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Hi Aidan
I'm getting a similar problem on a site I'm working on. The on page rank checker "can't reach the page". I've checked everything obvious (at least I think I have!)
May I ask how you eventually resolved it?
Thanks Aidan
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Hi
you can use this tool for be sure that the crawler see your files
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test
but you must wait for receive the report to a email.
when you say:
"get the following msg when I try to run On Page Analysis:"
the tools is this?
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new
for check the website you can use this:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org
Ciao
Maurizio
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Hi,
Thanks for the clarification. So the Robots.txt isn't blocking anything.
Do you know why then i cannot use SEOMoz On Page Analysis and Xenu and Screaming Frog only return 3 URLs?
I get the following msg when I try to run On Page Analysis:
"Oops! We were unable to reach the papge you requested for your report. Please try again later."
Would there be something else blocking me? GWMT Parameters maybe?
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E' un piacere.
but I don't understand the problem.
if the site have this robots.txt
**User-agent: ***
Allow: /
every crawler can index and see all files of the this website and Seo moz also.
Maybe the problem is different?
Ciao
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Thanks Maurizio,
I need to do some analysis on this site. Is there a way to use my SEO tools (screaming frog, SEOMoz) to ignore the robots.txt to enable me to do a good site audit?
Thanks again for the answers. Much appreciated
Aidan
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Hi Aidan
User-agent: *
Disallow:and
User-agent: *
Allow: /are the same
Ciao
Maurizio -
Hi Maurizio,
The reason I asked is because I am working on a site and it's robots.txt is :
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Why would they have this?
I can't use On-Page Analysis or Screaming Frog as it only results in 3 URLs.
Thanks again,
Aidan
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Hi
1° example:
User-agent: *
Disallow:all User-agent can index your files
2° example
User-agent: *
Disallow: /never User-agent"can index you files
other example here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449
Ciao
Maurizio
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