# 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.oscommerc...y/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: /catalog/admin
Disallow: /catalog/account.php
Disallow: /catalog/advanced_search.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php
Disallow: /catalog/create_account.php
Disallow: /catalog/login.php
Disallow: /catalog/login.php
Disallow: /catalog/password_forgotten.php
Disallow: /catalog/popup_image.php
Disallow: /catalog/shopping_cart.php
Disallow: /catalog/product_reviews_write.php
Disallow: /catalog/cookie_usage.php
Disallow: /catalog/contact.php

Disallow: /catalog/personal/
Disallow: /catalog/includes/
Disallow: /catalog/cgi-bin/
Disallow: /catalog/banned/
Disallow: /catalog/blocked.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: /