# This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * # Default OSC pages that we don't want to be indexed Disallow: /admin 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 # Other OSC pages that we don't want indexed Disallow: /includes Disallow: /webmail Disallow: /cache Disallow: /genSecurityImage.php # Forum pages not to be indexed Disallow: /forum/cache Disallow: /forum/include Disallow: /forum/templates Disallow: /forum/smileys # Affiliates pages that we don't want indexed Disallow: /affiliate/affiliates Disallow: /affiliate/include Disallow: /affiliate/langs Disallow: /affiliate/merchants Disallow: /affiliate/scripts Disallow: /affiliate/settings Disallow: /affiliate/templates Disallow: /affiliate/admin.php Disallow: /affiliate/global.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: /