Let's talk robots.txt

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Jizzlobber

Jizzlobber

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I haven't paid much mind to my robots.txt file in a while as far as what to disallow.

I noticed recently that I had been getting hit by this "TurnItIn" bot on a few of my sites. Never heard of it and checked it out but I don't know - something stinks about it to me.

Anyhow got me thinking so...looking for some suggestions to update my robots.txt file.
 


The example below is from hxxp://www.webmasterworld.com/robots3

Check out QuadsZilla's post about this question,
hxxp://seoblackhat.com/2006/01/03/webmaster-world-i-think-i-get-it/

#
# WebmasterWorld.com: robots.txt
# GNU Robots.txt Feel free to use with credit
# given to WebmasterWorld.
#
# Please, we do NOT allow nonauthorized robots any longer.
# http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/
# Yes, feel free to copy and use the following.


User-agent: OmniExplorer_Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FreeFind
Disallow: /

User-agent: BecomeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Jetbot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Jetbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebVac
Disallow: /

User-agent: Stanford
Disallow: /

User-agent: naver
Disallow: /

User-agent: dumbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Hatena Antenna
Disallow: /

User-agent: grub-client
Disallow: /

User-agent: grub
Disallow: /

User-agent: looksmart
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZip
Disallow: /

User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /

User-agent: b2w/0.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: Copernic
Disallow: /

User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Python-urllib
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: NetMechanic
Disallow: /

User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailSiphon
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebBandit
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailWolf
Disallow: /

User-agent: ExtractorPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: CopyRightCheck
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crescent
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProWebWalker
Disallow: /

User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LNSpiderguy
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla/3
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla/4
Disallow: /

User-agent: mozilla/5
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 98)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows XP)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 2000)
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver/1.6
Disallow: /

User-agent: Alexibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: Stanford Comp Sci
Disallow: /

User-agent: MIIxpc
Disallow: /

User-agent: Telesoft
Disallow: /

User-agent: Website Quester
Disallow: /

User-agent: moget/2.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZip/4.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebSauger
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: NetAnts
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mister PiX
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebAuto
Disallow: /

User-agent: TheNomad
Disallow: /

User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
Disallow: /

User-agent: RMA
Disallow: /

User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
Disallow: /

User-agent: asterias
Disallow: /

User-agent: httplib
Disallow: /

User-agent: turingos
Disallow: /

User-agent: spanner
Disallow: /

User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
Disallow: /

User-agent: NICErsPRO
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511
Disallow: /

User-agent: DittoSpyder
Disallow: /

User-agent: Foobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SpankBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BotALot
Disallow: /

User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
Disallow: /

User-agent: lwp-trivial
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorld News and Discussion for the Web Professional bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BunnySlippers
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169
Disallow: /

User-agent: URLy Warning
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget/1.6
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /

User-agent: cosmos
Disallow: /

User-agent: moget
Disallow: /

User-agent: hloader
Disallow: /

User-agent: humanlinks
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkextractorPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mata Hari
Disallow: /

User-agent: LexiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Web Image Collector
Disallow: /

User-agent: The Intraformant
Disallow: /

User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: True_Robot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: SearchEngineWorld bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorld News and Discussion for the Web Professional bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: JennyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
Disallow: /

User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
Disallow: /

User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebEnhancer
Disallow: /

User-agent: suzuran
Disallow: /

User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
Disallow: /

User-agent: VCI
Disallow: /

User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
Disallow: /

User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Openfind data gathere
Disallow: /

User-agent: Openfind
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu's
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus
Disallow: /

User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
Disallow: /

User-agent: RepoMonkey
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft URL Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Openbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: URL Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus Link Scout
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webster Pro
Disallow: /

User-agent: EroCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
Disallow: /

User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kenjin Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bookmark search tool
Disallow: /

User-agent: GetRight/4.2
Disallow: /

User-agent: FairAd Client
Disallow: /

User-agent: Gaisbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Aqua_Products
Disallow: /

User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorld Extractor
Disallow: /

User-agent: Flaming AttackBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerMan
Disallow: /

User-agent: searchpreview
Disallow: /

User-agent: sootle
Disallow: /

User-agent: es
Disallow: /

User-agent: Enterprise_Search/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Enterprise_Search
Disallow: /


User-agent: *
Disallow: /gfx/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /QuickSand/
Disallow: /pda/
Disallow: /zForumFFFFFF/
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turnitin is what a lot of schools use to check for plagairism. They search multiple sources and used to use google to check web content, but lately they have been building up their own index.
 
In my opinion there isn't really a reason that you shouldn't have a robots.txt file for your website or blog. I have one on every site or blog that I put up. This is one of the first things that I like to do.
 
But remember robots.txt is like asking someone not to hammer your site.

Blocking IPS in htaccess is like forcing them not to hammer your site. Of course you need lots of data to do that.


And I like doing robots.txt for the simple reason it works sometimes and it is one less page that generates 404s if it is not there.
 
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