# These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your OSC install is in your web site's CATALOG directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/admin/ User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/admin User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/includes User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/cgi-bin User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/account.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/account_edit.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/account_history.php User-agent: * Disallow: /v/account_history_info.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/account_password.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/add_checkout_success.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/address_book.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/address_book_process.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/advanced_search.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_confirmation.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_payment.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_payment_address.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_process.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_shipping.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_shipping_address.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/checkout_success.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/contact_bean.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/cookie_usage.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/create_account.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/create_account_success.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/login.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/password_forgotten.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/popup_image.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/shopping_cart.php User-agent: * Disallow: /shop/product_reviews_write.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. # 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.