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    • Bush_JSM
      Bush_JSM last edited by

      Hi Mozzers,

      I have a dev site that I want to run your crawl text on (Roger Bot) but I want to ensure the other engines don't crawl it.

      What is the Robots.txt line that I need to make sure only Roger bot can get in and not Google etc?

      Please advise

      Thanks

      Gareth

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      • intSchools
        intSchools last edited by

        User-agent: *

        Disallow: /

        User-agent: rogerbot

        Allow: /

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        • kyleNeedham
          kyleNeedham last edited by

          HI Gareth, Your robots.txt should look like this; User-agent: * Disallow: / User-agent: rogerbot Allow: /

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