# This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * Disallow: /account.php Disallow: /advanced_search.php Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /create_account.php Disallow: /login.php Disallow: /logoff.php Disallow: /password_forgotten.php Disallow: /popup_image.php Disallow: /shopping_cart.php # 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.