add custom robots.txt to block indexing /user and AI bots #55
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kilemensi
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Jan 9, 2025
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👍🏽 ... based on the default robots.txt link you shared, shouldn't we just be overriding specific blocks (all_user_agents, additional_user_agents, etc.) rather than creating a completely new robots.txt file?
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| # Generatedy by RoboShield (https://roboshield.trustlab.africa) |
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Comparing to other sites, we may be missing some crawlers
The Guardian, Washington Post, BBC, etc.
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This PR creates a custom
robots.txtoverriding CKAN's defaultrobots.txtWe'd like to block indexing &/ crawling on
/userand block generic AI bots not in Cloudflare's Verified bot's list