[Labs-l] Google bot

Sat Oct 25 23:37:05 UTC 2014

Much agree with these recommendations.

> On Oct 25, 2014, at 1:36 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As Nuria, Billinghurst and others said, the tools are expected to be discoverable. It's easy enough not to throw away the baby with the bathwather*.
> * Dynamic pages generally have some URL parameters, usually indicated by ?. In the general robots.txt, disallow Googlebot and friends** to crawl those, with appropriate wildcards, as per https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062596
> * If it's not enough, add URL patterns with several /
> * If it's not enough, reduce the global crawl-delay (apparently not possible per-folder) https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620
> * If it's not enough, at the very least the main page for each tool should be crawled, disallowing at most //tools.wmflabs.org/*/*
> 
> Nemo
> 
> (*) Even Toolserver managed, with way less resources.
> (**) But not ia_archiver if at all possible, please.
> 
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