# 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/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /admin Disallow: /images Disallow: /backup2mail Disallow: /banner_images Disallow: /css Disallow: /ext Disallow: /includes Disallow: /js Disallow: /manuals Disallow: /pub Disallow: /TEMPLATE_NAME Disallow: /userfiles Disallow: /account.php Disallow: /account_delete.php Disallow: /account_delete_process.php Disallow: /account_delete_success.php Disallow: /account_edit.php Disallow: /account_history.php Disallow: /account_history_info.php Disallow: /account_password.php Disallow: /address_book.php Disallow: /address_book_process.php Disallow: /advanced_search.php Disallow: /advanced_search_result.php Disallow: /allprods.php Disallow: /ask_a_question.php Disallow: /checkout_confirmation.php Disallow: /checkout_payment.php Disallow: /checkout_payment_address.php Disallow: /checkout_process.php Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /checkout_shipping_address.php Disallow: /checkout_success.php Disallow: /conditions.php Disallow: /contact_price.php Disallow: /contact_us.php Disallow: /cookie_usage.php Disallow: /create_account.php Disallow: /create_account_success.php Disallow: /customer_testimonials_write.php Disallow: /down_for_maintenance.php Disallow: /download.php Disallow: /dynamic_mopics.css Disallow: /download.php Disallow: /faq.php Disallow: /http_error.php Disallow: /favicon.ico Disallow: /info_shopping_cart.php Disallow: /informativas.php Disallow: /login.php Disallow: /logoff.php Disallow: /my_points.php Disallow: /my_points_help.php Disallow: /password_forgotten.php Disallow: /poll_list.php Disallow: /poll_results.php Disallow: /poll_vote.php Disallow: /pollcollect.php Disallow: /popup_image.php Disallow: /popup_privacy.php Disallow: /popup_promo.php Disallow: /popup_search_help.php Disallow: /print_order.php Disallow: /print_order2.php Disallow: /privacy.php Disallow: /redirect.php Disallow: /ssl_check.php Disallow: /shopping_cart.php Disallow: /stylesheet.css Disallow: /stylesheet_print.css Disallow: /stylesheetmail.css Disallow: /swfobject.js Disallow: /tell_a_friend.php Disallow: /download # 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: /