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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: casp3r on May 06, 2008, 05:24:10 PM

Title: Stop Twiceler from seeing forum
Post by: casp3r on May 06, 2008, 05:24:10 PM
Is there any way to prevent the Twiceler spider from idexing my forum? I've banned all the IPs listed here
http://cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html
but it stills shows in the logs.
Title: Re: Stop Twiceler from seeing forum
Post by: karlbenson on May 06, 2008, 05:30:20 PM
Add to your robots.txt

User-agent: Twiceler
Disallow: /

Note:
It should appear BEFORE any section with the * for useragent. And with a blank line between them.
like

User-agent: Twiceler
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Title: Re: Stop Twiceler from seeing forum
Post by: casp3r on May 06, 2008, 05:32:51 PM
Done. Will post back in a few days and let you know how it goes.

Many thanks