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    • seoanalytics
      seoanalytics last edited by

      Hello,

      I use joomla for my website and automatically all those files are blocked is that good or bad, so I remove anything and if so why ?

      User-agent: *
      Disallow: /administrator/
      Disallow: /cache/
      Disallow: /components/
      Disallow: /images/
      Disallow: /includes/
      Disallow: /installation/
      Disallow: /language/
      Disallow: /libraries/
      Disallow: /media/
      Disallow: /modules/
      Disallow: /plugins/
      Disallow: /templates/
      Disallow: /tmp/
      Disallow: /xmlrpc/

      I also added to my robots.txt files my email address ( is that useful, I am afraid google passes PR to the email address  )
      and a javascript: void (0) because I have tabs on my webpage  ( is that useful )
      as well as a .pdf ( is it also useful )

      any comments ? does anything need to be changed or is it ok ?

      Thank you,

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      • SaforwebDesign
        SaforwebDesign last edited by

        You must remove the line

        Disallow: /images/

        and let you images to be found.

        I hope this can help you

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        • seoanalytics
          seoanalytics last edited by

          Is removing the / image /  better in terms of SEO bercause of the lat tags etc... or just people to find my website via the images ?

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          • SaforwebDesign
            SaforwebDesign @seoanalytics last edited by

            It let your image be found for Google or other Search Engines. If not remove that line, none images will be show on serps. I don't know why Joomla gives robots.txt as this, but you need to change it.

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