answers.microsoft.com
robots.txt

Robots Exclusion Standard data for answers.microsoft.com

Resource Scan

Scan Details

Site Domain answers.microsoft.com
Base Domain microsoft.com
Scan Status Ok
Last Scan2024-05-31T03:54:10+00:00
Next Scan 2024-06-30T03:54:10+00:00

Last Scan

Scanned2024-05-31T03:54:10+00:00
URL https://answers.microsoft.com/robots.txt
Domain IPs 184.85.118.159, 2600:1417:3f:bac::3432, 2600:1417:3f:bb1::3432
Response IP 104.69.168.197
Found Yes
Hash 009d1a7e10ab4591c158b387a72cfd6c193c80307d4ea7651aa6dfd884830396
SimHash 79b0da74c7d1

Groups

mozilla/4.0 (compatible; msie 4.01; windows nt; ms search 6.0 robot)

Rule Path
Disallow /*/profile/
Disallow /*/search/
Disallow /*/pagestatistics/
Disallow /*/threadmorehelp
Disallow /*/feed/
Disallow /*/newthread
Disallow /*/privatemessage
Disallow /*/spark/
Disallow /*/forumspark/

bingbot

Rule Path
Allow /*/feedback/
Disallow /*/profile/
Disallow /*/search/
Disallow /*/pagestatistics/
Disallow /*/windowsarc/
Disallow /*/threadmorehelp
Disallow /*/newthread
Disallow /*/windows/forum/windows_cp*/
Disallow /*/office/forum/office_home-*/
Disallow /*/office/forum/office_2013-*/
Disallow /*/ie/forum/ie10_cp*/
Disallow /*/ie/forum/ie10_rp*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/mesh*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/hotmail*/
Disallow /*/feed/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/messenger*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/liveid*/
Disallow /*/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/windows/forum/windowsrt_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/*-skydrive_win8_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/*-skydrive_winrt_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/spark/
Disallow /*/forumspark/

*

Rule Path
Disallow /*/profile/
Disallow /*/search/
Disallow /*/pagestatistics/
Disallow /*/feedback/
Disallow /*/windowsarc/
Disallow /*/threadmorehelp
Disallow /*/newthread
Disallow /*/windows/forum/windows_cp*/
Disallow /*/office/forum/office_home-*/
Disallow /*/office/forum/office_2013-*/
Disallow /*/ie/forum/ie10_cp*/
Disallow /*/ie/forum/ie10_rp*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/mesh*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/hotmail*/
Disallow /*/feed/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/messenger*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/liveid*/
Disallow /*/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/windows/forum/windowsrt_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/*-skydrive_win8_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/windowslive/forum/*-skydrive_winrt_1_pr*/
Disallow /*/spark/
Disallow /*/forumspark/

Other Records

Field Value
sitemap https://answers.microsoft.com/index/thread

Comments

  • Allow SharePoint Crawler to index feedback forum but not other pages
  • Allow Bing to access feedback forum but not the other blocked pages
  • Disallow any other robot from indexing feedback forum + other pages