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hambil · #7 04-24-2009, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by vbplusme

Thanks for the comments, had not thought about the sitemap reference in there. thanks for that. I double password protect my admincp folder though I could easily take it out of the list altogether as the bots can not access it anyway so thanks for that comment as well.

It's not an issue of whether they access it or not, it is whether they try. Everything they try and fail at is wasted bandwidth and resources. If you password protect your admincp and modcp directories there is no reason to leave them out of robots.txt.

I pretty much followed the advice in this article, and have had not complaints from google: http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=19872

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