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    • ThomasHarvey
      ThomasHarvey last edited by

      Am I correct in saying that the allow/disallow is only applied to msnbot_mobile?

      mobile robots file

      User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile

      User-agent: YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2

      User-agent: MSNBOT_Mobile

      Allow: /

      Disallow: /1

      Disallow: /2/

      Disallow: /3

      Disallow: /4/

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      • donford
        donford last edited by

        Hi Thomas

        Unless I'm mistaken. If you list multiple user agents before a rule all the users agents are subjected to the rule.

        So what you have is a list of 3 user agents allowed "anything" disallowed 4 specific things.

        In the end the rules apply to all.

        Don

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