Robot Catcher
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Robots Exclusion
Sometimes people find they have been indexed by an indexing robot,
or that a resource discovery robot has visited part of a site that
for some reason shouldn't be visited by robots.
In recognition of this problem, many Web Robots offer facilities for Web
site administrators and content providers to limit what the robot does.
This is achieved through two mechanisms:
The Robots Exclusion Protocol
A Web site administrator can indicate which parts of the site should
not be vistsed by a robot, by providing a specially formatted file on
their site, in http://.../robots.txt.
The Robots META tag
A Web author can indicate if a page may or may not be indexed,
or analysed for links, through the use of a special HTML META tag.
The remainder of this pages provides full details on these facilities.
Note that these methods rely on cooperation from the Robot, and are by
no means guaranteed to work for every Robot. If you need stronger
protection from robots and other agents, you should use alternative
methods such as password protection.