How to deal with Search Engines ?

[tlwwolfseye]

I read in many Forum postings in Google that it is not recommended to put the path to the admincp in the disallow syntax of the robots.txt because it can be publically read. In my case, I renamed Admin and ModCP folder so its best to not put them into the robots.txt I suppose, if I don?t want them to be known by simply opening the file, right ?

In my robots.txt I have basically disallowed all php files in my forum root and to some of the folders. The rest i have set to * for search engines. Is it better to specifically set things for every search engine or not ?

Wolfseye

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I realize that since i put in my robots.txt I got a lot more "unwanted" guests on my site. Is it maybe better to not have a robots.txt at all, does that attract more spam ?

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Why did that last reply of mine got merged with my previous reply ?