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Hi,
I installed mybb forum in http://forums.etechtricks.com . I want to know whether I am using correct or not? I installed in /forums/ folder only, but I am using url as http://forums.etechtricks.com, So i want to use /forums/... in my robots.txt or I want to use /.......?????? And also tell my robots.txt is sufficient for seo???

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /forums/captcha.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/modcp.php
Disallow: /forums/moderation.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/ratethread.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendthread.php
Disallow: /forums/task.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp2.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/*action=emailuser*
Disallow: /forums/*action=nextnewest*
Disallow: /forums/*action=nextoldest*
Disallow: /forums/*year=*
Disallow: /forums/*action=weekview*
Disallow: /forums/*action=nextnewest*
Disallow: /forums/*action=nextoldest*
Disallow: /forums/*sort=*
Disallow: /forums/*order=*
Disallow: /forums/*mode=*
Disallow: /forums/*datecut=*
Allow: /

It refers to the URL part, i.e. hxxp://forums.etechtricks.com/forums/ or hxxp://forums.etechtricks.com/

It doesn't matter at all what the folder on your filesystem is called.