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Today I learnt OogleBot is ignoring the robots.txt file on my private Gitea server: git[dot]habd.as/robots.txt A quick search for "after dark habdas" reveals
by jhabdas 8y ago
Today I learnt OogleBot is ignoring the robots.txt file on my private Gitea server:
git[dot]habd.as/robots.txt
A quick search for "after dark habdas" reveals the second of two rules in the robots file, which explicitly blocks Oogle at the site root, is clearly being ignored.
Of course I created this rule before putting this server online and Andex is the only webmaster console I registered this site with. But that's besides the point. There's obviously a lack of respect for the robots file or a gross error in OogleBot as far as I can tell.
So now you know.
- throwawaycxn12 8y agoYou're doing it wrong, not Google: You're blocking the wrong bot user agent. You want "Googlebot", not "Google". Google documents this...