# Modified 01/9/2006 and Updated with getout.php spider-trap contribution Enjoy! # Sample robots.txt file (make sure the filename is ALL LOWERCASE on Linuxstore/Unix systems) # This file should go in your web site's ROOT directory # The root directory is where your site's main store/index.html file would be found # It is usually found in /yourhomedirstore/public_html/ or yourhomedirstore/httpdocs # Where "yourhomedir" is your user account's name # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spidersstore/crawlers User-agent: * # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your ZENCART install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php <- Use if this brings up your ZENCARTS main page Disallow: store/admin Disallow: store/account.php Disallow: store/advanced_search.php Disallow: store/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: store/create_account.php Disallow: store/login.php Disallow: store/login.php Disallow: store/password_forgotten.php Disallow: store/popup_image.php Disallow: store/shopping_cart.php Disallow: store/product_reviews_write.php Disallow: store/cookie_usage.php Disallow: store/product_info.php Disallow: store/Googlebot-Image Disallow: store/default.ida Disallow: store/getout.php # These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages # This assumes that your ZENCARTS install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/index.php <- Use if this brings up your ZENCARTS main page Disallow: store/admin Disallow: store/account.php Disallow: store/advanced_search.php Disallow: store/checkout_shipping.php Disallow: store/create_account.php Disallow: store/login.php Disallow: store/login.php Disallow: store/password_forgotten.php Disallow: store/popup_image.php Disallow: store/shopping_cart.php Disallow: store/product_reviews_write.php Disallow: store/cookie_usage.php Disallow: store/product_info.php Disallow: store/Googlebot-Image Disallow: store/getout.php Disallow: /saves/ # 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: store/private # Disallow: store/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. User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: store/