robots.txt on wiki and forum
#1
The lack of resources about Pine64 on search engines was suddenly explained when I found out that both the forum and the wiki had their "robots.txt" files configured to forbid indexing:


Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Can the person responsible for the domains please enable indexing of the contents and make our user lives easier?
#2
(06-09-2016, 09:00 PM)lvella Wrote: The lack of resources about Pine64 on search engines was suddenly explained when I found out that both the forum and the wiki had their "robots.txt" files configured to forbid indexing:


Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Can the person responsible for the domains please enable indexing of the contents and make our user lives easier?
We purposely disabled this due to it will generate a lot of soliciting traffic and slow down forum.
#3
(06-10-2016, 01:38 AM)tllim Wrote:
(06-09-2016, 09:00 PM)lvella Wrote: The lack of resources about Pine64 on search engines was suddenly explained when I found out that both the forum and the wiki had their "robots.txt" files configured to forbid indexing:


Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Can the person responsible for the domains please enable indexing of the contents and make our user lives easier?
We purposely disabled this due to it will generate a lot of soliciting traffic and slow down forum.

The forum allows only one search per 30 seconds, but Google gives all of us for free multiple searches per second. I don't know what is the burden of the bots on the servers, but looking for where I stand, it seems hardly worthwhile to forbid them, given the benefits (and that only good bots honors robots.txt).
#4
(06-10-2016, 11:23 PM)lvella Wrote:
(06-10-2016, 01:38 AM)tllim Wrote:
(06-09-2016, 09:00 PM)lvella Wrote: The lack of resources about Pine64 on search engines was suddenly explained when I found out that both the forum and the wiki had their "robots.txt" files configured to forbid indexing:


Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Can the person responsible for the domains please enable indexing of the contents and make our user lives easier?
We purposely disabled this due to it will generate a lot of soliciting traffic and slow down forum.

The forum allows only one search per 30 seconds, but Google gives all of us for free multiple searches per second. I don't know what is the burden of the bots on the servers, but looking for where I stand, it seems hardly worthwhile to forbid them, given the benefits (and that only good bots honors robots.txt).
I will explore with IT manager again, he against the idea on opening.


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