# Mofified 29/3/2005 and Updated with getout.php spider-trap contribution Enjoy! - Martin wisewombat@comcen.com.au # 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 # # We invite you to also check out our popular contribution: Simple Template System (STS) # It lets you layout or change your OSC look-and-feel by modifying a single HTML file # http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1524 or SimpleTemplateSystem.com # Enjoy! - Brian Gallagher @ DiamondSea.com # 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/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /store/admin Disallow: /store/account.php Disallow: /store/create_account.php Disallow: /store/cookie_usage.php Disallow: /store/getout.php Disallow: /store/account_edit.php Disallow: /store/account_history.php Disallow: /store/account_history_info.php Disallow: /store/account_newsletters.php Disallow: /store/account_notifications.php Disallow: /store/account_password.php Disallow: /store/address_book.php Disallow: /store/address_book_process.php Disallow: /store/advanced_search.php Disallow: /store/advanced_search_result.php Disallow: /store/checkout_confirmation.php Disallow: /store/checkout_payment.php Disallow: /store/checkout_payment_address.php Disallow: /store/conditions.php Disallow: /store/checkout_process.php Disallow: /store/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /store/checkout_shipping_address.php Disallow: /store/checkout_success.php Disallow: /store/contact_us.php Disallow: /store/create_account_success.php Disallow: /store/download.php Disallow: /store/info_shopping_cart.php Disallow: /store/lyrics Disallow: /store/lyrics.php Disallow: /store/login.php Disallow: /store/logoff.php Disallow: /store/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /store/popup_image.php Disallow: /store/popup_search_help.php Disallow: /store/privacy.php Disallow: /store/product_reviews.php Disallow: /store/product_reviews_info.php Disallow: /store/product_reviews_write.php Disallow: /store/products_new.php Disallow: /store/redirect.php Disallow: /store/reviews.php Disallow: /store/shipping.php Disallow: /store/shopping_cart.php Disallow: /store/specials.php Disallow: /store/ssl_check.php Disallow: /store/tell_a_friend.php Disallow: /store/includes Disallow: /store/images Disallow: /store/media Disallow: /store/lml Disallow: /store/calendar_content.php Disallow: /store/newsdesk_info.php Disallow: /store/newsdesk_index.php Disallow: /store/newsdesk_search_result.php Disallow: /store/newsdesk_reviews_write.php Disallow: /store/rss.php Disallow: /store/newsdesk_reviews_article.php Disallow: /store/newsdesk_reviews_info.php Disallow: /store/links.php Disallow: /store/about_us.php Disallow: /store/projekt.php Disallow: /store/featured_products.php Disallow: /store/ext Disallow: /store/paypal_cert_pem.txt Disallow: /store/events_calendar.php Disallow: /aswtats/ Disallow: /aswtats_old/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /cp/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /media/ Disallow: /modlogan/ Disallow: /mp3/ Disallow: /phpBB2/ Disallow: /projekt/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /webalizer/ Disallow: /wimpy/ # 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: /