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Article #173: Robots.txt, An Online Marketers Friend Or Foe?

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robots.txt is possibly the most miss comes to the fore, and robots.txt becomes
understood file that a website can your foe.
contain. Many online marketers who provide ebooks
Many people think that by using a or other digital products for instant
robots.txt file on their website they are download will list their download thank
protecting pages and folders from thieves you pages in the robots.txt file because
and hackers. In fact it is totally the they obviously don't want those pages
opposite! robots.txt opens up an enormous indexed in search engines.
security hole that hackers and theives By using robots.txt this way though, you
will use to easily gain access to the will be opening up your product to anyone
parts of your website that you don't want who has a slight bit of knowledge about
them to. how the file works.robots.txt is easily
What is robots.txt?robots.txt is a file readable by any human that opens a
that you create and upload to your browser and types in and if you have
websites root directory that is used by listed your thank you pages, all they
search engine spiders to determine which have to do is go to that url and take
parts of your website they should index your product(s)!
and which folders/pages that you, the It's that easy!
website owner,don't want listed in search And I'm living proof that this works, as
engine indexes. this is exactly what happened to me. I
Why would not want pages indexed? had listed my thank you pages in
There are many reasons why you might not robots.txt and thought that they were
want search engines to index pages on safe from hackers and thieves, then one
your website, such as private membership day I was checking my web site stats and
pages or exclusive training pages and BAM, someone had been to every single
such like. thank you page, and taken everything.
If you are an Internet Marketer selling The moral is, don't list any URL in
your own ebook or other digital product, robots.txt that you don't want humans to
you wouldn't want your thank you pages have free access to. Use robots.txt with
indexed either! great caution and secure your thank you
And this is where the misunderstanding pages using dedicated software.






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