robots.txt question
 

my index page is just a redirect to my forum area, now most of my traffic just goes right to the forums. Does google bot check the root no matter what for the robots.txt file? Or I guess what am asking is if google checks each directory for a robots file or just the root.

so if I wanted a whole directory off limts to google can I just put a robot file in it or do I have to specify that dir from the root robot file?

It should check /robots.txt and not /forum/robots.txt

I don't see why it would do the /forum/robots.txt

WiredGuy?

with a robots.txt file you're telling google which directories to crawl and which not to crawl..

and it goes in your main directory .. public_html or whatever it is

ok thanks.