OK, seeing as how I'm finally getting rankings, this scares me a bit.
And, I'm not a server guy what so ever. Can someone give me the dummy
version of this robots.txt concept? Do I copy this example and put it to
my root as a .txt file, or does it need customization? Also, how do I go
about changing a .htaccess file to point at index.html if I don't
already?
I'll even take a link or two if someone has them. I try not to post the
internet 101 questions that I may have here, but having my entire site
dumped by google because I have MO makes me more than nervous.
Thanks,
Wesley
www.desktopdarkroom.com
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Subject: Re: [mru] OT: Google link?
Bruce from Phosphor Media mentioned it earlier in the thread. If you're
using Merchant Optimizer you can exclude the search engines from
indexing
the Merchant directory. In my case, I already had an email conversation
with Bruce and the outcome I decided was to add an exclusion to my
robots.txt file (see if you can find the line):
www.sausagesource.com/robots.txt
I also have my .htaccess file pointing to the index.html in the Merchant
Optimizer page, so when a customer goes to the site, they're
automatically
seeing the Merchant Optimizer pages until they check out or use the
search
pages that will put browsing users into dynamic pages.
Marc
At 05:19 PM 5/16/2005, you wrote:
>I just dumped SEK (it didn't seem to be indexed anymore anyway), but
>really don't want to ditch Merchant Optimizer. I guest part of that is
>just the investment in that piece of software. (Businesses invest, not
>spend,
>right?) Is there an easy way to keep the spiders in Optimizer and out
of
>the dynamic pages?
>
>Danny
>www.watchforus.com