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Asked: 2026-06-10T00:41:01+00:00

I am a bit new at search engine optimisation, and I am just trying

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I am a bit new at search engine optimisation, and I am just trying to write a robot.txt file. I want to disallow pages in the terms and conditions folder, which has a space in it.

Should I write:

Disallow: /Page TermsAndConditions/

Or:

Disallow: /Page%20TermsAndConditions/

Or both, or does it not matter?

(I want to disallow this folder because this is full of technical jargon that I think is messing up the content keywords found by the googlebot – or do I have this wrong as well?).

Edit:

I found this page from googe Robots.txt Specifications. Which says: “Non-7-bit ASCII characters in a path may be included as UTF-8 characters or as percent-escaped UTF-8 encoded characters per RFC 3986”. So I guess the answer to this question is that it doesn’t matter.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Rename the folder without a space and avoid the issue.

    Disallow: /PageTermsAndConditions/
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