[mb-users] Why is robots.txt disallowing all of this?
Steve Wyles
steve at inhouse.co.uk
Sun May 4 15:24:52 UTC 2008
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> I would suggest appending the following to the current robots.txt:
>
> User-Agent: Googlebot
> Allow: /artist/
> Allow: /release/
> Allow: /track/
> Allow: /show/ (for seeing full AR listings)
>
IMO that would be a little silly. From what I recall, MB pays a specific
amount for the bandwidth used at Digital West depending on the average
bandwidth used in the last month. Anything that increases hosting cost and
adds additional load to the servers needs detailed investigation.
Steve
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