<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Connected Internet - Latest Comments in Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://connectedinternet.disqus.com/</link><description>The latest tech news, reviews and discussion</description><atom:link href="https://connectedinternet.disqus.com/creating_a_wordpress_robotstxt_to_improve_seo/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:31:13 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-58549013</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I like this site, it is nice.&lt;br&gt;SEO is so important to your site, you also can &lt;br&gt;do SEO by yourself. see my site&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livereceptions.net/seo-solutions/seo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.livereceptions.net/seo-solutions/seo"&gt;http://www.livereceptions.n...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;get free quote.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">livereceptions</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:31:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-27365195</link><description>&lt;p&gt;if any body could guide me that well how can i up load this robot text to my word press blog &lt;a href="http://learnquranonline1.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://learnquranonline1.wordpress.com"&gt;http://learnquranonline1.wo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">learningquranonline</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:38:03 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280418</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I think the following site describes perfectly the seo adjustments for a wordpress blog's robots.txt:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress"&gt;http://codex.wordpress.org/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Keresőoptimalizálás Könyv</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:10:09 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280417</link><description>&lt;p&gt;What about to block search results?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">George Donnelly</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:41:04 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280416</link><description>&lt;p&gt;should this be ok ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;User-agent: *&lt;br&gt;Allow: /wp-content/uploads/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /wp-content/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /wp-admin/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /wp-includes/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /wp-&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /feed/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /trackback/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /cgi-bin/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;User-agent: Googlebot-Image&lt;br&gt;Disallow:&lt;br&gt;Allow: /*&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">LiveJasmin</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:42:49 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280415</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I finally got my site indexed near perfectly thanks to much reading and viewing my access logs.. Based mostly on this &lt;a href="http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html"&gt;wordpress robots.txt example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AskApache</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:04:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280414</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I fixed the robots.txt. I wasnt putting it in the root directory.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">stacey</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:11:46 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280413</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Everett,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I installed the KB robots.txt plugin. This what I entered in the robots.txt plugin window.&lt;br&gt;User-agent: *&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disallow:&lt;br&gt;But when I do I do &lt;a href="http://www.babygeartoday.com/robots.txt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="www.babygeartoday.com/robots.txt"&gt;www.babygeartoday.com/robot...&lt;/a&gt; this is what I get, and in the plugin when it says check the the robots.txt file after I submit I get this also:&lt;br&gt;# BEGIN XML-SITEMAP-PLUGIN&lt;br&gt;Sitemap: &lt;a href="http://www.babygeartoday.com/sitemap.xml.gz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.babygeartoday.com/sitemap.xml.gz"&gt;http://www.babygeartoday.co...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;# END XML-SITEMAP-PLUGIN&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So uninstalled the google sitemap and analytics, and still the same thing. I was wondering could you help me solve this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;br&gt;Stacey&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">stacey</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:00:37 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280412</link><description>&lt;p&gt;hi, thanks for posting this.&lt;br&gt;i use it all unkess :&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;Disallow: /page/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /date/&lt;br&gt;Disallow: /comments/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">dwi kristianto</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:47:24 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280410</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you read the &lt;a href="http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html"&gt;new robots.txt&lt;/a&gt; recently updated article yet?  and check out &lt;a href="http://askapache.com/robots.txt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="askapache.com/robots.txt"&gt;askapache.com/robots.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AskApache</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:19:31 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280409</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thx Sue for reminding me I need to check my file&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Everton</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:07:43 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280408</link><description>&lt;p&gt;FWIW: this tester shows a lot of errors:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/robots-text-tester/robots-checker.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/robots-text-tester/robots-checker.php"&gt;http://www.searchengineprom...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sue&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sue</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:00:58 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280407</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for this post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I found out I had my robots.txt file in the wrong place anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paula&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paula Mooney</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:38:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280406</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Everton just stopped by to let you know I created a simpler and &lt;a href="http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html"&gt;updated robots.txt file for WordPress&lt;/a&gt;, and I used a lot of the recommendations from your visitor comments.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ask Apache</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:18:48 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280405</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Mike has a good point about duplicate contents :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ramil</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:50:27 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280404</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Another area that I've never looked into before, I'll have to read into this and enlightenment myself, but the idea seems like a sound one to me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it's best to start with the defaults shown in the linked file on Daily Blog Tips and go from there adding misc pages I have such as pages full of bookmarks etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Zath</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:20:29 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280403</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Good idea to disallow the bots from viewing the RSS feeds. My feeds usually always appear above the actual content in the SERPs which is good, but not so great for humans! Thanks, I'll give this a go :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Daze</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:19:59 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280402</link><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;if you want your site indexed, why should you exclude something?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because you don't want the same posts appearing twice and Google thinking it's duplicate content, or junk appearing in results as Google will then downgrade your real pages&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Everton</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:58:43 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280401</link><description>&lt;p&gt;if you want your site indexed, why should you exclude something?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">hannes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:20:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280400</link><description>&lt;p&gt;There is a better article about this on the askapache blog: &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.askapache.com/2007/seo/wordpress-robotstxt-optimized-for-seo.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.askapache.com/2007/seo/wordpress-robotstxt-optimized-for-seo.html"&gt;WordPress robots.txt optimized for SEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mr. Apache</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:42:41 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280399</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Why Disallow all extension? such as .PHP, .JS? can I get explain more about it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">IndoDX</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:38:22 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280398</link><description>&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons why you'd want to use a robots.txt file is to prevent Google from indexing content twice and potentially marking it as duplicate content. If it's listed in monthly archives, category folders and on your front page, for example, you might end up with pages in the supplemental index.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mike</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:02:44 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280397</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I don't understand Thilak&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;he wants them to be redirected towards essential pages&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;What this has to do with the robots file?!&lt;br&gt;And why should it be a waste of time to crawl the feeds?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ibrahim Faour</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:54:16 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280396</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I agree with Daniel, but Everton is right. He doesn't want Googlebots to waste their time spidering unwanted images or feeds. Instead, he wants them to be redirected towards essential pages&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Thilak</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:56:29 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Creating A WordPress Robots.txt To Improve SEO</title><link>http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2007/03/25/creating-a-wordpress-robotstxt-to-improve-seo/#comment-15280395</link><description>&lt;p&gt;omg, this is very useful.&lt;br&gt;thx u thx u&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">SoKoOLz</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:35:59 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>