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may i aks how you changed it to thread6988.html instead of showthread?
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may i aks how you changed it to thread6988.html instead of showthread?
It's done using a technique called url re-writing.

On this server, the page thread6988.htm does not physically exist. Instead, the web server monitors incoming url requests and looks for the word thread in that request..... if so, it grabs the numbers from that and passes it along to showthread.php easy enough.

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Hi csgal,
can you post the new robots.txt here, please?

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Would it make sense to use the robots no follow tag in your particular case?
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Yes, i need the robots.txt from daniweb for my vbulletin forum: http://www.schachfeld.de/

Where can I find the robots.txt?
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Can you send me the robots.txt to Matzefn1@web.de?
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Can I have the robots.txt, please.
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Post #5 shows the robots.txt file that I used to use. I no longer use a robots.txt file.
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Originally Posted by cscgal
Post #5 shows the robots.txt file that I used to use. I no longer use a robots.txt file.
Why do you no longer use a robots.txt? Google frowns upon multiple pages with the same content...!?

My robots.txt file: http://www.schachfeld.de/robots.txt
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We had a problem where pages that had a no-crawl code at the root directory still were being crawled (they were PDFs that had valuable IP in them).

We discovered that the bots were getting in through links on other pages of ours (the PDFs are "samples" of products that we use as marketing tools), so we put "no follow" codes -- <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow" /> -- on those pages.

This let's the spider index the page but not follow the links on the page.

But if someone includes a link to the non-HTML thread in a page that you don't control, do you think it will bypass your html rewrite?
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