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Will blocking the Wayback Machine (archive.org) have any impact on Google crawl and indexing/SEO?
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Will blocking the Wayback Machine (archive.org) by adding the code they give have any impact on Google crawl and indexing/SEO?
Anyone know?
Thanks!
~Brett
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I have blocked the Wayback Machine for a client and not allowed them to index the site. I blocked them via the robots.txt and not Meta NoIndex, and while blocking Wayback Machine it did NOT impact the positions within the targeted Google results.
Hope this helps.
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Brett,
I am not sure what code you are referring to but what archive.org suggests is blocking their crawler through robots.txt:
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /The robots.txt file should be in your root directory.
It's explained here: http://archive.org/about/exclude.php
Doing this will not impact your search results or crawl on Google.
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