You are going to check your site's technical health, but you need to exclude a part of your website from the analysis. What is the easiest way to do this with the help of SEMrush?
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Correct answer: Use the Site Audit Disallow Rules.
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The easiest way to exclude a specific part of your website from a Semrush Site Audit is by using the Site Audit Disallow Rules. This feature allows you to specify URLs or URL patterns that Semrush's crawler should ignore during the audit, effectively preventing those sections from being analyzed without altering your live site's configuration. Altering your robots.txt file would prevent all bots (including search engine crawlers) from accessing those sections, which is usually not the desired outcome for a site audit exclusion. Deleting a part of your website is a drastic and unnecessary measure. Blocking the bot from crawling sitemaps would only prevent Semrush from discovering pages via the sitemap, but it could still find them through internal links. Site Audit Allow Rules, conversely, specify what should be crawled, not what should be excluded.
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