When I go to AdSense and check the "Site Diagnostics", I see the following error on the log:

Blocked URL Reason Blocked Last Crawl Attempt
http:/ / example. com/ Not Found Jan 17, 2009

Please find below the robotx.txt file on my site's root directory.... this is the file I got by default with Drupal 6 installation (I didn't change anything).

Do I have to make any changes on this file to improve SEO?

Thanks!

# $Id: robots.txt,v 1.9 2007/06/27 22:37:44 goba Exp $
#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used: http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# Directories
Disallow: /database/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /sites/
Disallow: /themes/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /updates/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /logout/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=contact/
Disallow: /?q=logout/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/

Comments

Answered Question

This is a good question. I am having trouble finding out how to configure my robots file best. Did you ever get an answer?

according to Drupal 6 Search

according to Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization (http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-search-engine-optimization-seo), there are a handful of things you can do to improve the default robots.txt file...

- create duplicates of all your clean/non-clean urls, to account for no trailing slashes

Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin

- you can chage crawl delay, you can prevent image crawling, etc.

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