

This keeps my firewall log from becoming so cluttered up with routine bot blocks that I may not notice nefarious activity that should have my attention.Os traigo un listado de comandos para añadir a vuestro archivo de robots.txt para evitar el monitoraje de vuestra competencia hacia vuestras tiendas! This raises an obvious question – If CF firewall rules are so effective, why bother with robots.txt at all? I want to block bots with robots.txt whenever practical, with CF firewall rules as a second tier of defense. Block those naughty bots from any place they could cause damage. Robots dot text does no good against bad bots, so Cloudflare firewall rules instead.

I have not been able to find a credible, comprehensive list of these bots, so – blocking them one by one as I notice them in my log files. But, they are using a bit of my bandwidth without providing any benefit to me in return. I don’t hates them – their lifestyle is none of my business, and they are mining the data that I deliberately made available on my public pages. Also, once you visit, stay away for awhile. # All bots - please keep out of places you have no business snooping. Throw the doors mostly – not completely – open to good bots. User-agent: Crawl-delay: 10 Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /go/ Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Disallow: /s Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /astra-advanced-hook.Grapeshot: Uses probabilistic algorithms to examine and analyse my content.DotBot and ezooms: Intended to mine eCommerce sites, DotBot and ezooms look for product names, images, prices, and descriptions, and republishes the content on Dotmic.AhrefsBot: Collects my data which Ahrefs then sells to online marketers.They may or may not obey robots dot text, and if they obey it they may do so in different ways. robots. Mostly, they gather my information for the purposes of their master. SemrushBot-SA Disallow: / User-agent: dotbot Disallow: / User-Agent. Nonbinary bots neither help me nor hurt me – not deliberately anyway. Directories User-agent: Disallow: / Disallow: /clerk/ArchiveSearch/ Disallow.

My robots dot text directives are useless against bad bots – they simply disregard it. Examples include spambots and malicious login attempts. Not even Googlebot, however, completely obeys my robots dot text – it ignores my crawl-delay directive.īad bots are flat out evil – deliberately trying to do me harm. They index my site and make my content available to their users. The bots from the major search engines, in particular Googlebot, are examples. I’ll group bots into three categories – good, bad, or nonbinary. Bot behavior runs a spectrum – not just good or bad. While true, this statement misses much of the point. Interweb guides invariably point out that robots.txt is only useful with good bots – bad bots ignore it. Depending on the bot though, my robots dot text directives might be obeyed, ignored, partially obeyed, and/or interpreted in different ways. Its intended purpose is to give me control of how bots visit my site. Robots dot text (robots.txt) is a really interesting, conflicted, frequently disrespected – but useful – little file.
