# Robots.txt: Is it possible to exclude indexing of a specific category by a specific search engine?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [11.Октябрь.2018 21:47:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-is-it-possible-to-exclude-indexing-of-a-specific-category-by-a-specific-search-engine/99326 "2018-10-11T21:47:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [11.Октябрь.2018 21:58:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/robots-txt-is-it-possible-to-exclude-indexing-of-a-specific-category-by-a-specific-search-engine/99326/2 "2018-10-11T21:58:00Z")

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I think it is reasonable for us to allow people to add an arbitrary piece of text to robots.txt at the moment we are going to need a plugin, on the upside it is a very simple plugin

I think a reasonable middle ground could be a hidden site setting for “appending something” to robots, that way this can be done without a plugin

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