I'm trying to setup my robots.txt so that certain directories are blocked from being indexed by search engines, but NOT by the adsense crawler.
What I want is to have adsense be able to crawl directories that start '/jtopen_' but NOT have search engines in general do so.
Here's my robots.txt ...
User-agent: *
Disallow: /jtopen_
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Googles robots.txt checker says that both the Googlebot and adsense crawler will be blocked from /jtopen_ directories but, according to my research, it shouldn't.
Is this a problem with the checker or am I misunderstanding something about robots.txt?
Thanks!
david
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