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Originally Posted by kgun View Post

Personally I combine robots.txt (disallow file types and folders) and .htaccess (deny access to a folder and sub folders).
Using .htaccess to deny to a folder and to sub folder is a bad thing to do. I mean if you are returning a 403. That is because your are creating a dangling/node page, which are otherwise called dead end pages/folders.
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