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Philster · #1 01-16-2007, 10:47 AM

Hi everyone, I have no issues with search bots except Yahoo Slurps. I'd like to not allow them access to my forum. I was advised to create a .htaccess file to do this. Sorry I'm in the office at the moment so I cannot show you the content of this file. I can tell you that this files content does not have any reference to my individual site/domain. Not sure if this is correct or not. My problem is that it is not stopping them. Can anyone point me to the correct text that should be in this file so I can stop the slurps. Thanks everyone.

Phil.

Nomadite · #2 02-05-2007, 10:35 PM

Not sure if you've read it yet, but check out this thread about the slurper.

Link

Noma

Philster · #3 02-06-2007, 01:11 AM

Yep, read it a few times actually. It doesn't address my need though.:down:

Phil.

chriscoleman · #4 05-25-2007, 12:51 PM

<div align="center">Another way of shutting out SLURP is by using the noindex meta-tag. Yahoo SLURP obeys this command in the document's head, and the code inserted in between the head tags of your document is

<META NAME=robots CONTENT=noindex>

This snippet will ensure that that Yahoo SLURP does not index the document in the search engine database. Another useful command is the nofollow meta-tag. The code inserted is

<META NAME=robots CONTENT=nofollow>

This snippet ensures that the links on the page are not followed.

I found this on an SEO site.</div>

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