# $Id: robots.txt,v 1.9.2.1 2008/12/10 20:12:19 goba Exp $ # # robots.txt # # This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts # of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo! # and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site, # you save bandwidth and server resources. # # This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host: # Used: http://example.com/robots.txt # Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt # # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see: # http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html # # For syntax checking, see: # http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html # # Customized per http://drupalzilla.com/robots-txt # and http://blamcast.net/articles/drupal-seo # and http://groups.drupal.org/node/5391 # and http://tips.webdesign10.com/robots-txt-and-drupal # block the Internet Archiver if you want the privacy User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 # Directories Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /misc/ Disallow: /modules/ Disallow: /profiles/ Disallow: /scripts/ Disallow: /sites/ Disallow: /themes/ Disallow: /print/ Disallow: /printmail/ Disallow: /printpdf/ # Files Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt Disallow: /cron.php Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt Disallow: /install.php Disallow: /INSTALL.txt Disallow: /LICENSE.txt Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt Disallow: /update.php Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt Disallow: /xmlrpc.php # Paths (clean URLs) Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /aggregator Disallow: /comment/ Disallow: /comment/reply/ Disallow: /contact/ Disallow: /logout/ Disallow: /logout Disallow: /node/add/ Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /search$ Disallow: /taxonomy/ # Users # I block my user's pages on most sites because they don't have much content. Only leave it unblocked if your user pages have good content on them. # If you DON'T want your user's pages crawled, use this, otherwise delete it: Disallow: /user Disallow: /user$ # If you do want your user pages indexed, then delete the line above and uncomment these # NOTE: JCK4 doesn't want these logon, register, etc crawled either Disallow: /user/login Disallow: /user/login/ Disallow: /user/password Disallow: /user/password/ Disallow: /user/register Disallow: /user/register/ # This prevents Drupal's default non-clean URLs from being indexed Disallow: /?q= # block tracker pages Disallow: /*/track$ Disallow: /tracker/ # block paginated tracker pages Disallow: /tracker? # IMPORTANT: THE FOLLOWING LINE BLOCKS ALL /node* URLs -- only use it if you do not have content with URLs like http://example.com/node/10. Alternatively use the Global Redirect module. Disallow: /node Disallow: /node$ # Disallow robots from all but the main feed - requires Pathauto feed aliases turned on. Optionally only block Google from the following paths because it causes the most havoc with Google Disallow: /*/feed Disallow: /*/feed$ # Prevent print-friendly duplicate pages from being crawled Disallow: /book/export/ # This is important for the Forward module Disallow: /forward/ # This prevents duplicate content caused by some modules like the Forums and Views modules Disallow: /*sort= Disallow: /forum/2? Disallow: /forum/3? # Prevent duplicate content created by the Image module Disallow: /*size= # If you have the Front module this will keep a duplicate front page from being indexed Disallow: /front_page # If you use the Views module's frontpage this will keep the duplicate from being indexed Disallow: /frontpage # Paths (no clean URLs) Disallow: /?q=admin/ Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/ Disallow: /?q=contact/ Disallow: /?q=logout/ Disallow: /?q=node/add/ Disallow: /?q=search/ Disallow: /?q=user/password/ Disallow: /?q=user/register/ Disallow: /?q=user/login/