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Web Hosting Forum | Lunarpages > Lunarpages Web Hosting - Advanced Assistance > Lunarpages - Search Engine Optimization > My root, is it / or /public_html in FTP? (for robot.txt)
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« on: November 19, 2006, 11:33:12 PM »
Kind of a dumb question, but I wouldn't want to make a dumb mistake.

Dumb Q #2 - Do I even need a robot.txt? I suppose I could have it not waste time on images or cgi scripts?

Any other helpful hints welcome.
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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2006, 11:36:31 PM »
In FTP, your root is public_html.

If you don't want to block any robots from any part of your site, you don't need robots.txt. One benefit of having it regardless is not having 404 errors when bots look for the file.
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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2006, 11:55:46 PM »
From what I've read, I believe you are right.
It's not as if I got a lot that I want disallowed!

Some come one, come all, spiders, bots and crawly things, my door is wide open.  Woot
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2006, 06:39:03 AM »
If you want a robots.txt, you can create a robots.txt file in your public_html folder. Its contents can be this:
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User-agent: *
Disallow:

Having that for your robots.txt, or having an empty robots.txt, or having no robots.txt at all, are equivalent.
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