# Robot Exclusion File -- robots.txt # Last Updated : October 6th, 2008 User-Agent: * Disallow: /store/admin/ #To prevent only a select bots from any scans #User-agent: crawlers.looksmart.com #Disallow: / #To prenet any images from being scanned #Disallow: *.gif #Disallow: *.jpg #Disallow: *.png #To block main page due to size from bots #Disallow: /index.php #To shut down site completely from bots use # Disallow: / #Block out things that are secure or login oriented #These are based on not using any rewrite rules # 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: /