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  • lbohen
    lbohen last edited by Jan 23, 2013, 5:35 PM

    An SEO report, not by SEOmoz, says my top two competitors have robots.txt files that disallows spidering. I suspect that their robots.txt file doesn't disallow all spidering.

    How do I find out what is in their robots.txt files?

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    • lbohen
      lbohen @riyas_ last edited by Jan 23, 2013, 6:57 PM Jan 23, 2013, 6:57 PM

      Should I disallow 80legs and sitebot robots?

      Why might these two robots be disallowed?

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      • riyas_
        riyas_ @lbohen last edited by Jan 23, 2013, 6:36 PM Jan 23, 2013, 6:33 PM

        1. audiobooks.com
        User-agent: 008
        Disallow: /
        

        (Tells 80legs Robot to stay out of the website)

        User-agent:*
        Disallow:
        ```
        
        (Tells all other robots to visit all files of the website)
        
          2) audible.com
        
        ```
        User-agent: sitebot
        disallow: /
        ```
        
        (Tells Sitebot Robot to stay out of the website)
        
        ```
        User-agent: *
        Disallow: /mycart
        Disallow: /ajaxcart
        Disallow: /create-account
        Disallow: /acc-merge
        Disallow: /acc-merge6for6
        etc.. 
        ```
        
        (Tells all other robots not to enter specific directories listed)
        
        Learn more here [http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html](http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html)
        lbohen 1 Reply Last reply Jan 23, 2013, 6:57 PM Reply Quote 3
        • lbohen
          lbohen last edited by Jan 23, 2013, 5:58 PM Jan 23, 2013, 5:58 PM

          I would appreciate help in understanding what the following robots.txt files are doing.

          http://www.audiobooks.com/robots.txt

          http://www.audible.com/robots.txt

          riyas_ 1 Reply Last reply Jan 23, 2013, 6:33 PM Reply Quote 0
          • riyas_
            riyas_ last edited by Jan 23, 2013, 5:56 PM Jan 23, 2013, 5:50 PM

            Just go to example.com/robots.txt

            eg: http://www.facebook.com/robots.txt , http://www.seomoz.org/robots.txt

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            • PaulRonin
              PaulRonin Subscriber last edited by Jan 23, 2013, 5:56 PM Jan 23, 2013, 5:46 PM

              Hey Larry,  You should be able to put the URL directly into the browser and see the file: http://www.example.com/robots.txt

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