# 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: /includes Disallow: /ext Disallow: /wp-admin Disallow: /wp-content Disallow: /wp-includes Disallow: /account.php Disallow: /account_edit.php Disallow: /account_history.php Disallow: /account_history_info.php Disallow: /account_newsletters.php Disallow: /account_notifications.php Disallow: /account_password.php Disallow: /add_checkout_success.php Disallow: /address_book.php Disallow: /address_book_process.php Disallow: /advanced_search.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: /cookie_usage.php Disallow: /create_account.php Disallow: /create_account_success.php Disallow: /down_for_maintenance.php Disallow: /download.php Disallow: /gv_redeem.php Disallow: /gv_send.php Disallow: /info_shopping_cart.php Disallow: /login.php Disallow: /logoff.php Disallow: /password_forgotten.php Disallow: /popup_coupon_help.php Disallow: /popup_extra_images.php Disallow: /popup_image.php Disallow: /popup_search_help.php Disallow: /product_reviews_write.php Disallow: /redirect.php Disallow: /shopping_cart.php Disallow: /ssl_check.php Disallow: /tell_a_friend.php Disallow: /wp-atom.php Disallow: /wp-blog-header.php Disallow: /wp-comments-post.php Disallow: /wp-commentsrss2.php Disallow: /wp-config.php Disallow: /wp-atom.php Disallow: /wp-links-opml.php Disallow: /wp-login.php Disallow: /wp-mail.php Disallow: /wp-rdf.php Disallow: /wp-register.php Disallow: /wp-settings.php Disallow: /wp-trackback.php Disallow: /xmlrpc.php # 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: /