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    robots.txt and static pages

    What's the best way to handle the robots.txt file with a Miva site that has static mirror pages? Here's the situation:
    I recently used Phosphor's Merchant Optimizer module to create static pages on a Miva 5 site, and it works very nicely. I used a robots.txt file to disallow the mm5 directory to prevent spiders from thinking I was producing duplicate content. But I see in google's webmaster tools that it wants to index certain resources within the mm5 directory, and I am concerned that I may be missing out on search results -- for example if all the product images are inside the mm5 directory (inside images/00000001) then they would not show up on google image search, right?
    Should I not be blocking the entire mm5 directory?
    Thanks in advance,
    --Lee
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    Re: robots.txt and static pages

    the exclusion just prevents robots from scanning those directories, if, for example, you have an image in the excluded directory, it no effect on the SE.
    Bruce Golub
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