# 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: /admin # Disallow: /account.php # Disallow: /advanced_search.php # Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php # Disallow: /create_account.php # Disallow: /login.php # Disallow: /login.php # Disallow: /password_forgotten.php # Disallow: /popup_image.php # Disallow: /shopping_cart.php # 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/main/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /main/admin Disallow: /main/account.php Disallow: /main/advanced_search.php Disallow: /main/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /main/create_account.php Disallow: /main/login.php Disallow: /main/login.php Disallow: /main/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /main/popup_image.php Disallow: /main/shopping_cart.php Disallow: /main/cookie_usage.php Disallow /contact_us.php Disallow /jsc-index.html Disallow /leagle.html Disallow /licence.txt Disallow /lto.htm Disallow /Normal_index.html Disallow /OSS_index.html Disallow /privacy.html Disallow /showiframe.htm Disallow /www_tempestlabs_com.htm # 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 Disallow: /_borders Disallow: /_fpclass Disallow: /_NIU Disallow: /_overlay Disallow: /_private Disallow: /_themes Disallow: /admin Disallow: /banner_adds Disallow: /images Disallow: /Jsc2 Disallow: /scripts Disallow: /usage Disallow: /webalizer # 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: /