# # 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 User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 5 # If a user needs to be logged in to see something, keep it off of search engine results: Disallow: /account/ Disallow: /avatars/ Disallow: /forum/adm/ Disallow: /forum/mcp.php Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php Disallow: /forum/tracker/ Disallow: /forum/tracker2/ # Dynamic/spammy content that will annoy search engines: Disallow: /forum/search.php # Keep the trash off the internet: Disallow: /forum/viewforum.php?f=28 Disallow: /forum/viewforum.php?*&f=28 Disallow: /forum/viewtopic.php?f=28 Disallow: /forum/viewtopic.php?*&f=28 # Keep the site load down: Disallow: /res/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /forum/ext/ Disallow: /forum/styles/ # Sick of Amazonbot DDoSing the server when it crawls. -DA User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /forum/ # Internet Archive bot should see everything: User-agent: ia_archiver Allow: /