# 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: /account.php Disallow: /advanced_search.php Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /create_account.php Disallow: /login.php Disallow: /login.php Disallow: /password_forgotten.php Disallow: /popup_image.php Disallow: /shopping_cart.php # 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/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page Disallow: /cosmetics/247skin Disallow: /cosmetics/account.php Disallow: /cosmetics/advanced_search.php Disallow: /cosmetics/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: /cosmetics/create_account.php Disallow: /cosmetics/login.php Disallow: /cosmetics/login.php Disallow: /cosmetics/password_forgotten.php Disallow: /cosmetics/popup_image.php Disallow: /cosmetics/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. # Website Sitemap Sitemap: http://www.247cosmetics.com/skin/sitemap.xml # Crawlers Setup User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 # Directories Disallow: /skin/404/ Disallow: /skin/app/ Disallow: /skin/cgi-bin/ Disallow: /skin/downloader/ Disallow: /skin/includes/ Disallow: /skin/js/ Disallow: /skin/lib/ Disallow: /skin/magento/ Disallow: /skin/media/ Disallow: /skin/pkginfo/ Disallow: /skin/report/ Disallow: /skin/skin/ Disallow: /skin/stats/ Disallow: /skin/var/ # Paths (clean URLs) # Disallow: /skin/index.php/ Disallow: /skin/index.php/catalogsearch/advanced/ Disallow: /skin/index.php/customer/account/forgotpassword/ Disallow: /skin/index.php/customer/account/create/ Disallow: /skin/index.php/customer/account/login/ Disallow: /skin/catalog/product_compare/ Disallow: /skin/catalog/category/view/ Disallow: /skin/catalog/product/view/ Disallow: /skin/catalogsearch/ Disallow: /skin/checkout/ Disallow: /skin/control/ Disallow: /skin/contacts/ Disallow: /skin/customer/ Disallow: /skin/customize/ Disallow: /skin/newsletter/ Disallow: /skin/poll/ Disallow: /skin/review/ Disallow: /skin/sendfriend/ Disallow: /skin/tag/ Disallow: /skin/wishlist/ # Files Disallow: /skin/cron.php Disallow: /skin/cron.sh Disallow: /skin/error_log Disallow: /skin/install.php Disallow: /skin/LICENSE.html Disallow: /skin/LICENSE.txt Disallow: /skin/LICENSE_AFL.txt Disallow: /skin/STATUS.txt # Paths (no clean URLs) Disallow: /skin/*.js$ Disallow: /skin/*.css$ Disallow: /skin/*.php$ Disallow: /skin/*?p=*& Disallow: /skin/*?SID=