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    Does putting Disallow: / at the end of a robots.txt file override the Allow: /xxxx that come before it?

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    • gofluent2017
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      • Alick300
        Alick300 last edited by

        Hi,

        No it won't override.

        "If you put the Disallow first, then many bots will see it as saying they can't crawl anything. By putting the Allow first, those that apply the rules from top to bottom will see that they can access that page."

        _https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19869004/robots-txt-to-disallow-all-pages-except-one-do-they-override-and-cascade_

        Thanks

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          • Alick300
            Alick300 last edited by

            Yes agreed with james wolff,

            If you are adding Disallow:/ at last no need to adding any other disallow.

            Thanks

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