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i have joomla site in sub directory. root website joomla site. had created robot.txt main site , site in sub directory, , used following rules:

in main robot.txt:
disallow: /(name of sub directory)

in sub directory robot.txt:
disallow: /

however despite doing this, site has found on google. can give me insight how have happened?

the thing can think of have put capital letter 1st letter of subdirectory in main robot.txt file.

please advise on how can site of google possible.

thanks

greetings:

1. think robots.txt file missing things.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/robots_exclusion_standard

2. in html, can add following in header section top:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

3. see http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... lude_pages how remove pages.

thank you.