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    • ryanforrest
      ryanforrest last edited by

      I have several page types on my sites that I have blocked using the robots.txt file (ex: emailafriend.asp, shoppingcart.asp, login.asp), but they are still showing up in crawl diagnostics as issues (ex: duplicate page content, duplicate title tag, etc). Is there a way to filter these issues or perhaps there is something I'm doing wrong resulting in the issues that are showing up?

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      • Keszi
        Keszi last edited by

        Hi Ryan,

        At the end of this page you will find several ways to block Roger bot from indexing pages: http://moz.com/help/pro/rogerbot-crawler

        I hope it helps,

        Istvan

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        • ryanforrest
          ryanforrest @Keszi last edited by

          I added the pages that it was suggesting to the robots.txt file:

          http://www.naturalrugco.com/robots.txt

          Most of the pages listed in the high priority errors within moz analytics crawl diagnostics are the emailafriend.asp pages which I've disallowed. Ex: http://www.naturalrugco.com/EmailaFriend.asp?ProductCode=AMB0012-parent

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          • Keszi
            Keszi @ryanforrest last edited by

            Hi Ryan,

            try to move the sitemap to the end and leave a space before it. something like this:

            User-agent:*
            Disallow: /cgi-bin/
            Disallow: /ShoppingCart.asp
            Disallow: /SearchResults.asp

            ...

            ...

            Disallow: /mailinglist_subscribe.asp
            Disallow: /mailinglist_unsubscribe.asp
            Disallow: /EmailaFriend.asp

            Sitemap: http://www.naturalrugco.com/sitemap.xml

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