# Sample robots.txt file (make sure the filename is ALL LOWERCASE on Linux/Unix systems) # This file should go in your web site's ROOT directory # The root directory is where your site's main /index.html file would be found # It is usually found in /yourhomedir/public_html/ or /yourhomedir/httpdocs # Where "yourhomedir" is your user account's name # # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: Slurp Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: /*action* User-Agent: Googlebot Disallow: /*action* #Disallow: /*notify$ #Disallow: /*action=post* User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / User-agent: msnbot Disallow: / Disallow: /cgi-bin/ User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: discobot Disallow: / User-agent: * # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your OSC install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page #Disallow: /cgi-bin/ #Disallow: /catalog Disallow: /catalog/admin Disallow: /catalog/account.php #Disallow: /catalog/advanced_search.php Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /catalog/create_account.php Disallow: /catalog/login.php Disallow: /catalog/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /atvillustrated/ Disallow: /email/ Disallow: /email_background/ Disallow: /forms/ Disallow: /NewsTicker/ Disallow: /old/ Disallow: /photogallery/ Disallow: /SharedSSL/ Disallow: /template.htm Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /*action* Disallow: /*notify$ # Feel free to add any other pages on your site that you don't want to be indexed by # the search engines. # PLEASE NOTE: Any pages that you list here should be secured by other means if you # don't want people to be able to view them, as some malicious users will look at a # robots.txt file to try to find "hidden" or "secret" areas of web sites to find # confidential information. # Just Uncomment a line or add new ones as you see fit. # Disallow: /private # Disallow: /hidden # IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE THE GOOGLE IMAGE BOT SCAN YOUR DOMAIN FOR IMAGES # THEN YOU CAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR ROBOTS FILE. # I FOUND THAT MY BANDWIDTH USAGE DROPPED BY A MASSIVE AMOUNT AFTER I GOT RID # OF THE GOOGLE IMAGE BOT. ALL I HAD WAS IMAGE HUNTERS STEALING PRODUCT SHOTS # AND NOT EVEN BROWSING THE SITE.