# 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: /bcat/includes/ Disallow: /bcat/images/ Disallow: /bcat/download/ Disallow: /bcat/pub/ Disallow: /bcat/account.php Disallow: /bcat/account_edit.php Disallow: /bcat/account_history.php Disallow: /bcat/account_history_info.php Disallow: /bcat/address_book.php Disallow: /bcat/address_book_process.php Disallow: /bcat/advanced_search.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_confirmation.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_payment.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_payment_address.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_process.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_shipping_address.php Disallow: /bcat/checkout_success.php Disallow: /bcat/contact_us.php Disallow: /bcat/cookie_usage.php Disallow: /bcat/create_account.php Disallow: /bcat/login.php Disallow: /bcat/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /bcat/popup_image.php Disallow: /bcat/product_reviews_write.php Disallow: /bcat/shopping_cart.php Disallow: /badmin/ Disallow: /maillist/ Disallow: /myspace/ Disallow: /feeds/ # 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: /