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1. darkppl
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   i got a wordpress blog at www.psdstuff.vndv.com/wordpress/ ..... i installed platinum SEO and google sitemap generator plugin..... the plugins are working and my sitemap has been detected as valid....

   i wanna ask, how to build where to put my robots.txt file??? i built one with google but it dsnt seem to be working as google finds it invalid,,,

   moreoever do i have to change my permalinks type from for example (http://psdstuff.vndv.com/wordpress/?p=222) to (http://psdstuff.vndv.com/wordpress/bla-bla-bla.html) for it to work with google????

   kindly help...

2. ravidreams
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   you have to put robots.txt file in the root folder of the wordpress installation. you can use ftp software like filezilla to upload this file.

   read http://www.robotstxt.org/ for details.

   adding robots.txt is not mandatory. You may also use robots meta plugin which will help do much of the function of robots.txt without needing to upload this file.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/robots-meta/

   Google has no problem indexing http://psdstuff.vndv.com/wordpress/?p=222

   However, having url like http://psdstuff.vndv.com/wordpress/bla-bla-bla/ is more search engine and human friendly. no needto have .html at the end of the page

3. darkppl
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   one more question,,, google says my robots.txt file should be in my root that is http://www.psdstuff.vndv.com/ but my wordpress installation is at http://psdstuff.vndv.com/wordpress/ so where do i put it??? google has no options to change the url of the file,, it only wants it in my root....though it doesnt detect it even when i put it in root :(

4. darkppl
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   also kindly tell a plugin that would resolve this issue

5. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

   The robots.txt file must reside in the root of the domain and must be named "robots.txt".

   You need a robots.txt file only if your site includes content that you don't want search engines to index. If you want search engines to index everything in your site, you don't need a robots.txt file (not even an empty one).

6. darkppl
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   ok i got it... one more thing.... when i post something, i give it some tags, do these tags serve as meta tags??? that google can detect?

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