# 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: * # 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/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /arting/ Disallow: /forum/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /store/arting/ Disallow: /store/admin/ Disallow: /store/artbox/ Disallow: /store/includes/ Disallow: /store/account.php Disallow: /store/advanced_search.php Disallow: /store/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /store/create_account.php Disallow: /store/login, Disallow: /store/login.php Disallow: /store/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /store/popup_image.php Disallow: /store/shopping_cart.php Disallow: /store/contact_us.php Disallow: /store/product_reviews_write.php Disallow: /store/product_aq_write.php Disallow: /store/cookie_usage.php Disallow: /store/images/ Disallow: /store/forum/admin/ Disallow: /store/forum/images/ Disallow: /store/forum/include/ Disallow: /store/forum/userpix/ Disallow: /store/forum/faq.php Disallow: /store/forum/groupcp.php Disallow: /store/forum/login.php Disallow: /store/forum/memberlist.php Disallow: /store/forum/modcp.php Disallow: /store/forum/posting, Disallow: /store/forum/posting.php Disallow: /store/forum/privmsg, Disallow: /store/forum/privmsg.php Disallow: /store/forum/profile.php Disallow: /store/forum/search.php Disallow: /store/forum/viewonline.php Disallow: /store/forum/wblg_search.php Disallow: /store/forum/weblog_config.php Disallow: /store/forum/weblog_posting.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/include/ Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/sql/ Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/addfav.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/addpic.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/admin.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/albmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/bridgemgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/catmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/charsetmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/config.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/delete.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/editOnePic.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/exifmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/forgot_passwd.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/groupmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/keyword_create_dict.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/keywordmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/login.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/picEditor.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/picmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/pluginmgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/profile.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/register.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/update.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/upload.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/usermgr.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/viewlog.php Disallow: /store/forum/gallery/xp_publish.php # Disallow: /store/forum/viewforum, # Disallow: /store/forum/viewforum.php # Disallow: /store/forum/viewtopic, # Disallow: /store/forum/viewtopic.php # 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 (BadBots) 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. #User-agent: Googlebot-Image #Disallow: /