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How to Find Another Site's robots.txt File?
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An SEO report, not by SEOmoz, says my top two competitors have robots.txt files that disallows spidering. I suspect that their robots.txt file doesn't disallow all spidering.
How do I find out what is in their robots.txt files?
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Should I disallow 80legs and sitebot robots?
Why might these two robots be disallowed?
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User-agent: 008 Disallow: /(Tells 80legs Robot to stay out of the website)
User-agent:* Disallow: ``` (Tells all other robots to visit all files of the website) 2) audible.com ``` User-agent: sitebot disallow: / ``` (Tells Sitebot Robot to stay out of the website) ``` User-agent: * Disallow: /mycart Disallow: /ajaxcart Disallow: /create-account Disallow: /acc-merge Disallow: /acc-merge6for6 etc.. ``` (Tells all other robots not to enter specific directories listed) Learn more here [http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html](http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html) -
I would appreciate help in understanding what the following robots.txt files are doing.
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Hey Larry, You should be able to put the URL directly into the browser and see the file: http://www.example.com/robots.txt
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