# This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages Disallow: /catalog/ Disallow: /webalizer Disallow: /images-icons Disallow: /images-miscellaneous Disallow: /images-products Disallow: /images-category Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /store/ # 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. User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /images/ User-agent: psbot(pic search) Disallow: /images/ User-agent: yahoo-MM crawler Disallow: /images/ User-Agent: OmniExplorer_Bot Disallow: / User-Agent: Shim-Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: BecomeBot Disallow: /cgi-bin/