WEBinP Your guide to resolving CMS optimization, Web Development and SEO problems
In this article I have posted 2 examples – simple and advanced. In each example there will be lines that you need to change, below there will be notes with specifics of what should be changed.
1st robots.txt, optimized for SEO
User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /? Disallow: /wp- Disallow: *?s= Disallow: *&s= Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /users/ Disallow: */trackback Disallow: */feed Disallow: */rss Disallow: */embed Disallow: */wlwmanifest.xml Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: *utm*= Disallow: *openstat= Allow: */uploads Sitemap: http://www.domain.name/sitemap.xml Host: www.domain.name
In this example, replace www.domain.name to your domain. If the main mirror of the site is without www, then write domain.name. If the site uses https, then in the Sitemap line, write https instead of http. If you do not have a wlwmanifest.xml file on your server, then this line should be deleted.
2nd robots.txt, created for Google and Yandex
User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /? Disallow: /wp- Disallow: *?s= Disallow: *&s= Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /users/ Disallow: */trackback Disallow: */feed Disallow: */rss Disallow: */embed Disallow: */wlwmanifest.xml Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: *utm*= Disallow: *openstat= Allow: */uploads User-agent: GoogleBot Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /? Disallow: /wp- Disallow: *?s= Disallow: *&s= Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /users/ Disallow: */trackback Disallow: */feed Disallow: */rss Disallow: */embed Disallow: */wlwmanifest.xml Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: *utm*= Disallow: *openstat= Allow: */uploads Allow: /*/*.js Allow: /*/*.css Allow: /wp-*.png Allow: /wp-*.jpg Allow: /wp-*.jpeg Allow: /wp-*.gif Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php User-agent: Yandex Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /? Disallow: /wp- Disallow: /wp/ Disallow: *?s= Disallow: *&s= Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /users/ Disallow: */trackback Disallow: */feed Disallow: */rss Disallow: */embed Disallow: */wlwmanifest.xml Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Allow: */uploads Allow: /*/*.js Allow: /*/*.css Allow: /wp-*.png Allow: /wp-*.jpg Allow: /wp-*.jpeg Allow: /wp-*.gif Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Clean-Param: utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign Clean-Param: openstat Sitemap: http://www.domain.name/sitemap.xml Host: www.domain.name
The edits will be exactly the same as for the first example.
