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submitted 3 weeks ago by sam_uk@slrpnk.net to c/meta@slrpnk.net

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I wondered about the robots.txt

I can see the case for it, I could also see the case for allowing at least Google to index the site.

Has there been some discussion about this previously?

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[–] sam_uk@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's any day now I think, EU pension funds are moving out https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F9d90d557-48e5-4f4b-a927-88071cef8ea9

Would you be up for re-enabling Google indexing? It is crappy, but still..

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not very motivated, but I can look into it.

[–] sam_uk@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it would just be

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ok I tried to allow-list some search engine spiders in the robot.txt, however they will probably still just run into the AI scraper block if they act too shady.

But honestly, I highly doubt we will get much traffic from Google search. It's completely gone to shit these days.