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Error 1 - Submitted URL blocked by robots.txt (133 pages)

Issue: The client has copyright only for the SAARC countries. But the client website content was appearing all over the world due to that USA company has filed a DMCA complaint. Challenges: We couldn’t counter their notice, because the client didn’t have rights for that countries. Solution: Develop a sub-domain (for ex: xyz.abc.com) Apply 302 redirection whenever user visit website through non-copyright countries IP. For Example: If user visit website (abc.com) from USA IP then he will 302 redirect to subdomain (abc.xyz.com) with the message “now this content is not available for this region” And block all the bots to crawl the sub-domain through robots.txt file (for ex: User-Agent: * Disallow: /) Add a Meta robots tag (<meta name "robots" content="noindex, nofollow">) Reference URL: http://comingsoon.zee5.com/robots.txt Client FAQ’s related to DMCA Issue: Question - How to block content delivery to the USA or other non-copyright...