Will blocking the Wayback Machine (archive.org) have any impact on Google crawl and indexing/SEO?

[BBuck]

Will blocking the Wayback Machine (archive.org) by adding the code they give have any impact on Google crawl and indexing/SEO?

Anyone know?

Thanks!

~Brett

[EricHess]

I have blocked the Wayback Machine for a client and not allowed them to index the site. I blocked them via the robots.txt and not Meta NoIndex, and while blocking Wayback Machine it did NOT impact the positions within the targeted Google results.

Hope this helps.

[evoba]

Brett,

I am not sure what code you are referring to but what archive.org suggests is blocking their crawler through robots.txt:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

The robots.txt file should be in your root directory.

It's explained here: http://archive.org/about/exclude.php

Doing this will not impact your search results or crawl on Google.

V-