Why doesn't Moz crawler follow robots.txt?
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It is crawling the entire site, and there is stuff we do not want it to. Please advise.
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Which I am ok with, but why am I getting duplicate content?
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Yes, it doesn't tell them which pages not to crawl - just not to index them
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It has been used correctly. The site is a Magento site and they have it built in. There are a lot of filters for products so it uses rel=canonical to tell Google which to index.
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rel=canonical is not really an robots instruction file - rel=canonical is to help with duplicate copy where you have the same or similar pages and your telling search engines which pages is the preferred page.
If you don't want pages crawling you have to tell Search engines in the robots file
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Hi There,
Rel=canonical tags tell robots, which page is actually to index out of many.
For SEOs, canonicalization refers to individual web pages that can be loaded from multiple URLs. This is a problem because when multiple pages have the same content but different URLs, links that are intended to go to the same page get split up among multiple URLs. This means that the popularity of the pages gets split up. Unfortunately for web developers, this happens far too often because the default settings for web servers create this problem.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
I feel you have not used it correctly, check the above article and see if it helps.
Thanks,
Vijay
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So I made a mistake it isn't the robots.txt that is the issue. I am getting hit with a ton of duplicate content penalties so I figured that was it. The problem is that I have pages with rel=canonical tags that it is ignoring. Does Roger not read those?
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Hi
Have to agree with the above, Rogerbot does listen to robot.txt file, unlike Bing - while they are getting better Bing ignores the robots.txt file frequently.
Ive analysed quite a few server logs over the years and Roger has always listened to the file - its usually a mistake the in the robots file.
There is an option to test your robots.txt file in GCS - while this is testing to see if Google will crawl the page - usually Roger has the same instructions as Google.
However if you are still pretty certain that Roger is ignoring robots.txt please DM your Server Logs and your website and I will take a look and analyse it for you (free of course).
Thanks
Andy
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All major search engines, including Moz's crawler Rogerbot and Internet Archives, respect Robots.txt as a standard “robots exclusion protocol” to communicate with web crawlers and web robots.
In case you wish to exclude some specific information from all Search Engines, you can use the following sample code as reference to block specific directories.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /junk/However, if you want to specifically block Mz's Rogerbot from crawling specific sections of your website. You may take the following reference code to block specific areas / directories in your website from rogerbot:
User-agent: Rogerbot
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /junk/I hope this helps, If you have specific questions, please feel free to respond, I will be happy to answer them.
Regards,
Vijay
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Hi there! Moz's crawler, rogerbot, does follow robots.txt. When he's not following robots.txt, it's usually because the robots.txt protocol is formatted improperly. Learn more about formatting your page here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt
For more information on Roger, including how to block him, head here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-procedures/what-is-rogerbot
And if you want to test your formatting, try the Robots Checker here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598
If you're still unable to determine why rogerbot is crawling your site, feel free to write in to help@moz.com!
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