How to command Robots.txt to this:
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Hi,
So for some reason I have this unexplained issues in webmaster tools. Check them out:
See that iSeeCars.com? How to remove it? Is it just disallow: iseecars.com?
Or should I disallow the search to be crawled?
Regards,
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Nikola, are you using wordpress ?
What is the URL?
Web therapist,
Chenzo
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Do update the thread when you have more data Nikola. I would be interested to see what else is found.
-Andy
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Well it's weird, I went to this one article that Moz was pointing out, and I did saw a link to ISeeCars.com, which was added by my contributors probablt.
The thing is, the link is directing to Iseecars.com, but when you click on it, It redirects you to:
I don't know why?!
When I edited the post, I double checked that the link is linking only to ISEECARS...
...the issue remained, so I gave up and deleted the link.
I'll wait another week for crawl reports.
Thanks for the guidance though,
Cheers,
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I haven't actually seen his issue before. It looks like your searches are producing an element in your RSS feed and I suspect this is being done to try and gain backlinks from you or is referrer spam.
Add the following to your robots.txt. It can do no harm.
disallow: /iseecars.com
Someone else might pop along with a little more advice on this but I suspect it is something automated.
-Andy
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Nono, I haven't had any contact with this website before. I've seen it only as crawl issue, I see it on Moz Crawl Report Too.
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Is this a page / article in your site anywhere Nikola? I'm wondering if it's some kind of referrer spam.
-Andy
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