# Robots.txt for http://www.yourdomain.com # Email: youremail@yourdomain.com # #place this file in your root directory # 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 # #Replace all /catalog/ with your shop directory name #Remove the # to activate additional blocks # # # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * # #Block All Images Disallow: *.gif Disallow: *.jpg Disallow: /*.gif$ Disallow: /*.jpg$ # # 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: / # #To block main page due to size from bots # Disallow: /catalog/index.php # #To shut down site completely from bots use either # Disallow: / # Disallow: /catalog/ # #If you had search engine friendly URLs on and want to clean them out of the bots #Disallow: /catalog/default.php/cPath/ # # #Block out directories bots don't need to go to # PLEASE NOTE: Any directories 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. # # #Block out things that are secure or login oriented # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages Disallow: account.php Disallow: account_edit.php Disallow: account_edit_process.php Disallow: account_history.php Disallow: account_history_info.php Disallow: account_newsletters.php Disallow: account_notifications.php Disallow: account_password.php Disallow: add_checkout_success.php Disallow: address_book.php Disallow: address_book_process.php Disallow: addtocart.php Disallow: advanced_search.php Disallow: advanced_search_result.php Disallow: attributes_qty_prices_table_popup.php Disallow: checkout_confirmation.php Disallow: checkout_payment.php Disallow: checkout_payment_address.php Disallow: checkout_paypalipn.php Disallow: checkout_process.php Disallow: checkout_shipping.php Disallow: checkout_shipping_address.php Disallow: checkout_success.php Disallow: create_account.php Disallow: create_account_process.php Disallow: create_account_success.php Disallow: disclaimer.php Disallow: download.php Disallow: info_shopping_cart.php Disallow: login.php Disallow: logoff.php Disallow: password_forgotten.php Disallow: paypal_notify.php Disallow: popup_coupon_help.php Disallow: popup_image.php Disallow: popup_image1.php Disallow: popup_image2.php Disallow: popup_image3.php Disallow: popup_image4.php Disallow: popup_image5.php Disallow: popup_image6.php Disallow: popup_search_help.php Disallow: product_notifications.php Disallow: product_reviews_write.php Disallow: redirect.php Disallow: shopping_cart.php Disallow: shopping_cart_help.php Disallow: shipping_estimator_popup.php Disallow: tell_a_friend.php # #Optional Pages to block #Disallow: about_us.php #Disallow: conditions.php #Disallow: contact_us.php #Disallow: privacy.php #Disallow: shipping.php