Posted by Big Bill on 08/08/06 17:05

On 8 Aug 2006 07:16:01 -0700, softwarelabus@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I wanted to warn all website owners that some evil web hosts like
>vistapages will periodically place a robots.txt file on your site that
>disallows all search engines. It happened to me.
>
>Over the last several months I've noticed my web traffic dropped to
>nearly zero. A few days ago I noticed a new file, robots.txt. As most
>of you know, if your site has a robots.txt in your websites home
>directory then all search engines will look at it for possible
>instructions. The robots.txt file tells search engines what to do or
>what not to do. In my case, it had simple instructions to disallow all
>user-agents; i.e., telling all sites they cannot come here.
>
>How to check:
>If you web site is called www.mywebsite.com then you want to check the
>following web page:
>www.mywebsite.com/robots.txt
>
>You should also look for this file when you ftp to your site in case
>your web host places a sneaky server script to make robots.txt
>invisible only to you.
>
>Paul

I guess your web hosts don't like you, do they? Did you ask them about
this?

BB
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