RapidBot, your first SEO tool, is now available.

3mors · February 2012

Your first SEO tool

RapidBot is the incredibly easy tool designed to create a robots.txt file for your site directly from RapidWeaver.

Robots.txt file is retrieved by search engines, like Google and Bing, and used to state what pages need indexing and what must be ignored.

A robot (also known as Spider or Web Crawler) is a program that automatically traverses the web's hypertext structure by retrieving a document and recursively retrieving all documents that are referenced.

Don't forget that instructing search engines bots help you adding visibility to your site and let people reach you in a more efficient way excluding irrelevant contents.

Only if search engines know what to do with your pages, they can give you a good ranking.

RapidBot is a must-have SEO tool!

For more info, please visit product page at www.omnidea.it/rapidbot.

You can purchase RapidBot on our store at incredible introductory price of € 2.50.

www.omnidea.it/store

RapidBot is also included in our Complete RapidPack.

chambers · February 2012

Your shopping cart for RapidBot is not working. Also it would be good to have some finished documentation.

Should be a nce, simple little plugin, for those that don't want to create robot.txt files by hand !

chambers

Ed Brenner · February 2012

Added a link from the myRW site's Plugin Page.

Cart worked fine for me. Purchased, installed and registered.

gibo · February 2012

on 1329344445:

Also it would be good to have some finished documentation.

We're having some troubles publishing doc drafts, but this should be fixed in next hours.

chambers · February 2012

Cool, thanks.

chambers

chambers · February 2012

Still can't purchase, any problems your end, I know Ed didn't have any problems. Using Safari 5.3.1

chambers · February 2012

Getting error message with RapidWeaver 5.2.2 see screen grab.

chambers

peterdanckwerts · February 2012

Working now. I've just bought it.

·[RapidBase]· · February 2012

A nice plugin. But I'm asking myself if I would have practical use for it if I already own Loghounds "Sitemap Plus" plugin, which also automatically generates a robots.txt file. Would I have any additional benefit when using both plugins?

Best, Matthias

gibo · February 2012

on 1329351331:

Would I have any additional benefit when using both plugins?

Most certainly the cool robot icon...

gibo · February 2012

on 1329348933:

Getting error message with RapidWeaver 5.2.2 see screen grab.

chambers

Here's the cause:

http://support.omnidea.it/kb/general-faqs/why-do-i-keep-getting-some-of-installed-omnideas-plug-in-are-out-of-date-warning

Make sure your installed omnidea's plugin are up-to-date and remove RapidDocs (which has been replaced by RapidViewer), if installed.

Ed Brenner · February 2012

Most certainly the cool robot icon…

Not sure that's the answer folks will be wanting to hear?

Durandal · February 2012

I’m sure it’s not the one...;(

gibo · February 2012

on 1329366748:

Most certainly the cool robot icon…

Not sure that's the answer folks will be wanting to hear?

Obviously I was joking.

RapidBot is focused on robots.txt creation only. It lets you fine tune indexing rules and add per-useragent filters and comments. Moreover, we're planning to add in future releases even more non-standard (although robots.txt is something that's not standardized at all) options like request-rate and visit-time directives.

AFAIK SiteMap Plus uses robots.txt file only to provide sitemap url and relies on meta tags to set indexing rules. That said, I think they can somehow complement each other.

gibo · February 2012

We're having some troubles publishing doc drafts, but this should be fixed in next hours.

Documentation should be fixed right now.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Michael Monaco · February 2012

I'm hitting purchase and nothing's going in the cart.

3mors · February 2012

on 1329419588:

I'm hitting purchase and nothing's going in the cart.

Hi Michael,
you are the second guy that is experiencing this problem, but we can't figure it out.
We have tested our website on Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE and it works correctly.
In addition we are receiving orders from customers.
Could you please tell me if you get any javascript errors?
Please report it at http://support.omnidea.it
Thanks.

3mors · February 2012

on 1329419588:

I'm hitting purchase and nothing's going in the cart.

I figure the problem out. :-)

Purchase button sends you to our store.
Choose "New licenses" category in order to purchase a RapidBot license.

Michael Monaco · February 2012

Got it and purchased it. Thanks man!

FireDude2894 · February 2012

I'm looking forward to using RapidBot. Especially as the great peeps on this RW forum post helpful tips and tricks!

m.m · February 2012

do we need a robots.txt if you have a sitemap.xml?
example: http://www.omnidea.it/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /error/
Sitemap: http://www.omnidea.it/sitemap.xml

3mors · February 2012

on 1330267305:
do we need a robots.txt if you have a sitemap.xml?
example: http://www.omnidea.it/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /error/
Sitemap: http://www.omnidea.it/sitemap.xml

Robots.txt tells search engines where sitemap is.
Default is "sitemap.xml" in root folder, but could be any name in any folder.

pl_svn · March 2012

... something is wrong with the sparkle update process :-/

no idea if it's RapidBot or RapidWeaver itself but on relaunch I got a pretty scaring "missing plugins" alert and none of my plugins was seen by RW

had a look at user/Library/Application Support/Rapidweaver/ and found a "to Install" folder with RapidBot inside. manually moved RB to where it belongs, deleted the "to Install" folder and all is fine again

please: take a look at this!
thanks

gibo · March 2012

on 1330652981:

... something is wrong with the sparkle update process

no idea if it's RapidBot or RapidWeaver itself but on relaunch I got a pretty scaring "missing plugins" alert and none of my plugins was seen by RW

had a look at user/Library/Application Support/Rapidweaver/ and found a "to Install" folder with RapidBot inside. manually moved RB to where it belongs, deleted the "to Install" folder and all is fine again

Updates are handled by Sparkle update framework and we do not have much control over it.

We've not received other reports about this, so it could be an isolated issue.

pl_svn · March 2012

ok, thanks :-)

gibo · March 2012

RapidBot 1.0.2 is now available

Bug fixes
Fixes robots.txt syntax

http://www.omnidea.it/rapidbot

pl_svn · March 2012

... and this time too Sparkle update leaves RapiBot inside a "to Install" folder (in user/library/Application Support/RapidWeaver/) and on relaunch RW does not see *any* of my installed plugins, not just RapidBot! aaarrggghhhh!!!

if all is fine on your side, *please* get in touch with whoever is behind Sparkle as there's something deeply wrong!

gibo · March 2012

on 1331000938:

... and this time too Sparkle update leaves RapiBot inside a "to Install" folder (in user/library/Application Support/RapidWeaver/) and on relaunch RW does not see *any* of my installed plugins, not just RapidBot! aaarrggghhhh!!!

if all is fine on your side, *please* get in touch with whoever is behind Sparkle as there's something deeply wrong!

I'd start with a permission / integrity check on your hard disk. We've not been able to reproduce your issue nor received other reports about it.

Please open a ticket on our support system if you'll still have troubles with future updates.

http://support.omnidea.it

3mors · January 17

RapidBot 1.0.3 is now available.

New features
New rule duplication functionality.
Support for HiDPI (Retina).

Bug fixes
Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

http://www.omnidea.it/rapidbot

Realmac Software

RapidBot, your first SEO tool, is now available.

Comments