Do i have my robots.txt file set up properly
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Hi, just doing some seo on my site and i am not sure if i have my robots file set correctly. i use joomla and my website is www.in2town.co.uk.
here is my robots file, does this look correct to you
User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/many thanks
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thanks for this, i will add a sitemap now
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thanks for this. been having for a long time trouble with a site map. the reason is, i use joomla 1.5 and i am not sure the best way to have it set or which is the best tool to use.
my articles change all the time and not sure how many of the articles i should have in the site map or to have just the sections.
on an old site i had all the articles, well up to 2,000 and that gain me a lot of traffic but with the new site i took that down
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Yes, this does look good. However, usually the robots.txt will define a location of a sitemap. Not absolutely needed, but good to know.
Here is an example of one of our client's wordpress sites.
User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /another-post Disallow: /dolor-and-the-sit-amet/ Disallow: /hello-world-2-2/ Disallow: /second-page-post/ Disallow: /hello-world-2-3/ Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /events/ Disallow: /wp-content/ Sitemap: http://backcountrysnow.com/sitemap.xml.gz
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