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    • AspenFasteners
      AspenFasteners last edited by

      I believe that the Google and Bing crawlbots understand wildcards for the "disallow" URL's in robots.txt - does Roger?

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      • jennita
        jennita last edited by

        Hi! Yes, our crawler does read wildcards in a robots.txt file. This change was made in the past 3 months or so. Hope that helps!

        Jen

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