Robots txt. in page with 301 redirect

[Kilgray]

We currently have a a series of help pages that we would like to disallow from our robots txt.

The thing is that these help pages are located in our old website, which now has a 301 redirect to current site.

Which is the proper way to go around?

1- Add the pages we want to disallow to the robots.txt of the new website?

2- Break the redirect momentarily and add the pages to the robots.txt of the old one?

Thanks

[LauraSultan]

Do you want to disallow the URLs that these pages are being redirected to? If not, there's no need to add anything to the robots.txt file.

If you do want to disallow the URLs that these pages are being redirected to, use relative URLs in your robots.txt file. For example, let's say olddomain.com/old-help-page/ is being redirected to newdomain.com/new-help-page/. If that's the case, add the following to your robots.txt file.

Disallow: /new-help-page/

There's no need to disallow the specific URLs that are being redirected to something else.  Are you trying to get them removed from Google's index or something?  If so, Google will update their index eventually based on your 301 redirects.

[Kilgray]

Hi Laura,

Thanks for your reply. I don't want to disallow the URLs these pages are being redirected to. Actually these URLs are in the old version but still can be accessed. So to put it simply, this is my case:

1- This was our current website: www.kilgray.com (With a 301 redirect)

2- This is our new website: www.memoq.com

3- I would like to disallow the following links on the old website that are still visible (haven't been redirected):

http://kilgray.com/memoq/2015-100/help-en/index.html

http://kilgray.com/memoq/2014/help-en/

http://kilgray.com/memoq/2013R2/help-full-en/

http://kilgray.com/memoq/60/help-en/

[LauraSultan]

So, the problem is that the robots.txt file can't be accessed because of the 301 redirect to the new domain?

Do you plan to keep the help files on the old domain, or will they be removed completely?

[Kilgray]

Hey, for some time we will keep the files in the old domain. Should we break the redirect and insert the disallows to the robot.txt of the old site?

[LauraSultan]

In that case, you'd need to add the robots meta tag at the page level before the tag.

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