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        Removing Documents From the Wayback MachineThe Internet Archive is not interested in offering access 
                        to Web sites or other Internet documents whose authors 
                        do not want their materials in the collection. To remove 
                        your site from the Wayback Machine, place a robots.txt 
                        file at the top level of your site (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt) 
                        and then submit your site below. 
                      The robots.txt file will do two things:
                      It will remove all documents from your domain from 
                          the Wayback Machine.
                        It will tell us not to crawl your site in the future.To exclude the Internet Archive's crawler (and remove 
                        documents from the Wayback Machine) while allowing all 
                        other robots to crawl your site, your robots.txt file 
                        should say:
                      User-agent: ia_archiver
                            Disallow: /
                      Robots.txt is the most widely used method for controlling 
                        the behavior of automated robots on your site (all major 
                        robots, including those of Google, Alta Vista, etc. respect 
                        these exclusions). It can be used to block access to the whole domain, or any file or directory within. There are a large number of resources 
                        for webmasters and site owners describing this method 
                        and how to use it. Here are a few:
                      http://www.global-positioning.com/robots_text_file/index.html
                        http://www.webtoolcentral.com/webmaster/tools/robots_txt_file_generator
                        http://pageresource.com/zine/robotstxt.htmOnce you have put a robots.txt file up, submit your site 
                        (www.yourdomain.com) on the form on http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site.The robots.txt file must be placed at the root of your domain (www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt). If you cannot put a robots.txt file up, read our exclusion policy.  If you think it applies to you, send a request to us at [email protected].


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