Google has started to ignore my robots.txt

[galaxyAbstractor]

why?

User-agent: *
Disallow: /bigjoe/

That's one part of my robots.txt that got indexed. I belive it is strongly against the rules that search engines index sites in the robots.txt.
Edit:
see:

Tillåten=allowed

 

[DeadBattery]

Sometimes, it takes time to have Google process things.
That was probably from the last time GoogleBot went to your forum.
I suggest waiting a few days and then see what happens.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

Sometimes, it takes time to have Google process things.
That was probably from the last time GoogleBot went to your forum.
I suggest waiting a few days and then see what happens.

I made that robots.txt at january and google bot can access all. The Bigjoe thing was added 2 weeks ago and google dled it 3 hours ago.

 

[tittat]

How you save your file is it robots.txt or robot.txt ???
please double check that 's' .Many people often make this mistake.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

How you save your file is it robots.txt or robot.txt ???
please double check that 's' .Many people often make this mistake.

it is robots.txt but I noticed there is difference between /bigjoe/ and /bigjoe

 

[tittat]

But i think Disallow: /bigjoe/ is correct itself. Am i right?

where is your robots.txt located. Is it right inside your public_html folder itself?
Please give your site URL. Is it an Addon-Domain or Parked one?

 

[ASPX.King]

you need to disallow /bigjoe/* and /bigjoe/sub_dir/* and all the other sub-folders
don't forget the *
to be on the safe side, just put in every single filename!

 

[dWhite]

http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

About /robots.txt
In a nutshell

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.example.com/welcome.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.example.com/robots.txt, and finds:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages on the site.

There are two important considerations when using /robots.txt:

* robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
* the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use.

So don't try to use /robots.txt to hide information.

 

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