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Aurora SEO: Regulate content crawling by search engines using robots.txt

When you publish content in the community, search engines (web robots or web crawlers) crawl these newly published pages to discover and gather information from them. After crawling the content, th...
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MeghanaS
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7 months ago

MGourlay 

To stop pages belonging to certain boards from being crawled, you can create a custom rule and disallow pages from those boards. e.g., To stop pages of a forum board from being crawled, use  " Disallow: /discussions/<board-name>/* " 

You don't necessarily have to mention a user agent. If you don't mention a user agent, " User-agent: * " gets applied by default.