Quick Reply need about Robots.txt file

[asghar]

Which is the better way to restrict Search Engines to index my Directory: "uploads" and the content in it?

User-agent: *
1: Disallow: /httpdocs/php/uploads/

2: User-agent: *
Disallow: /php/uploads/

3: User-agent: *
Disallow: /uploads/

if I use /php/uploads/ will search engines not index my "PHP" Directory?

[asghar]

Also,
can I hide robots.txt file from visitors like if someone open the link "/httpdocs/robots.txt" but I dont want to show that which directory is most important but Search Engines can still read this robots txt file, is there any way?

[emmamartin123]

I am looking for same stuff now a days if any have more idea about this then please mention here I am eagerly waiting for this .

[Maheshpandit]

They will index. You have to restrict for php folder too..

[bigcat1967]

Agree w/ the comment above - they should index, so you will have to restrict bots from indexing them.

I believe the first one should work:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /httpdocs/php/uploads/

[leapharris]

Google will index robots.txt and sitemap files first so there is no way to hide these files from Google and the format for not crawling that 'upload' folder is

Useragent : Google
Disallow : /uploads

[paulgl]

Put your uploads in a password protected folder.

Google is not the only one indexing stuff...

Paul

[asghar]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Put your uploads in a password protected folder.

Google is not the only one indexing stuff...

Paul

that looks like a decent answer, I will have to try this one and I will let you know the results

Thanks buddy