Activeco: I did a google search on “Disallow: /adwords-directory/” and this post is the only thing that came up – wow, that was fast. Do you know where I can find out more about customizing my robots tags for the purposes I have outlined here? I’m not here to needle anyone to death, I just need to figure out how to set my sites up correctly. I’m surprised there isn’t more info that’s easy to find regarding this –it’s seems like many people probably have the same issue. I would even pay for consulting time if I knew I was getting valid information.

Deepsand: The minisites are on separate domains. They are almost exactly the same, except for minor changes in the headlines, etc. Many of them are even identical. I have the same sales page on my main site as I do in the minisites. I am working to get the sales page on the main site better optimized for SEO, but I don’t care about SEO for the minisites (they are only for AdWords ads). This is why I’d like to cut the minisites off from robots so I don’t get penalized on my main site for duplicate content (my main site is the also the one that I want to show up in organic searches).

Thanks for any insights.