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[attherefinery]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me why this appears on Google when I search my domain.

"[FLASH]
<p align="left"><font face="DIN ...
File Format: Shockwave Flash
... href="mailto:[email protected]"><b>info@att herefinery.co.uk</b></a></font ... kerning="0"><a href="http://www.attherefinery.co.uk/portfolio.html" ...
www.attherefinery.co.uk/index.swf - Similar pages"

and not the simple description? What am i doing wrong, I dont want people to see this technical info on google, plus its doing it for a number of other clients sites I've done.

Thanks

[CyanBlue]

Howdy and Welcome...

That's the Google result on the specific SWF file and Google automatically searches the content of the SWF file unless it is told not to...
To not include that, you probably have to use robot.txt file...

Check this page out to learn more about it...
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

[attherefinery]

Thanks,

Does anyone know what to write in the index.html file to stop the robot listing this on the google site?

[CyanBlue]

Um... Did you read the link that I have given you???

[attherefinery]

yes, but it doesn't relate to my situation, regarding the SWf files. Hence the reply and seeking help.

Thanks

[attherefinery]

Hi

does anyone know how to remove to SWF information from Google listings. I.e
"[FLASH]
<p align="center"><font face="DIN-Regular" size="14" color ...
File Format: Shockwave Flash
<p align="center"><font face="DIN-Regular" size="14" color="#00acee" letterSpacing="0.000000" kerning="0"><a href="javascript:window.opener=self ...
www.attherefinery.co.uk/portfolio.swf - Supplemental Result - Similar pages"

I dont to shoew this information when searching on Google. on the description of the site. I've searched robot.txt forums and cant find an answer.
please help

[3pepe3]

Originally Posted by CyanBlue

Howdy and Welcome...

That's the Google result on the specific SWF file and Google automatically searches the content of the SWF file unless it is told not to...
To not include that, you probably have to use robot.txt file...

Check this page out to learn more about it...
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html

i think i need to read this... to much text, english and something completly new to me... hope this is not going to burn my brain.
thanks Cyan

[attherefinery]

Will this work

robots.txt file with the following code

"User-agent: *
Disallow: /htdocs/
"

??

[CyanBlue]

No, that will affect everything in that directory which might not be what you want... You could specify it like this...

User-agent: *
Disallow: /htdocs/*.swf

There are some tools you can use to validate the robot.txt file...
http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml

Oh, don't crosspost... We don't allow that here...

[attherefinery]

Hi,

Thanks for that, It says it has errors

"The following block of code contains some errors. Please, remove all the reported errors and check again this robots.txt file.
Line 1 User-agent: *
Line 2 Disallow: /htdocs/*.swf
The "*" wildchar in file names is not supported by (all) the user-agents addressed by this block of code. You should use the wildchar "*" in a block of code exclusively addressed to spiders that support the wildchar (Eg. Googlebot)."

can you help here and re send the correct code. Thanks, and sorry for cross threading.