Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit

• DaGeek247@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My robots.txt has been respected by every bot that visited it in the past three months. I know this because i wrote a page that IP bans anything that visits it, and l also put it as a not allowed spot in the robots.txt file.

  I've only gotten like, 20 visits in the past three months though, so, very small sample size.

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  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know this because i wrote a page that IP bans anything that visits it, and l also put it as a not allowed spot in the robots.txt file.

    This is fuckin GENIUS

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      only if you don’t want any visits except from yourself, because this removes your site from any search engine

      should write a “disallow: /juicy-content” and then block anything that tries to access that page (only bad bots would follow that path)

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      • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s exactly what was described…?

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      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You need to read again the thing that was described, more carefully. Imagine for example that by “a page,” the person means a page called /juicy-content or something.

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you for sharing

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  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interesting way of testing this. Another would be to search the search machines with adding -site:your.domain to show results from your site only. Not an exhaustive check, but another tool to test this behavior.

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  for common people they respect and even warn a webmaster if they submit a sitemap that has paths included in robots.txt

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