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Not sure if that is effective at all. Why would a crawler check the robots.txt if it’s programmed to ignore it anyways?

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cause many crawlers seem to explicitly crawl “forbidden” sites

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Google and script kiddies copying code…

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You could also place the same page as a hidden link on your home page.

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