################################### # Robots.txt # ################################### # # My Sitemap - I don't provide it just for the fun of it # http://www.merapahadforum.com/index.php?action=kitsitemap;xml # Google - Most Important bot # Unfortunately a robots.txt will only stop it crawling certain urls, and NOT adding any # urls which it comes across into its index. So we're relying on a meta noindex tag. User-agent: Googlebot Allow: /index.php?action=kitsitemap;xml Disallow: /*?action* Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*msg* Disallow: /?wap2 Disallow: /?wap # Don't index mobile versions Disallow: /index.php?*;wap Disallow: /index.php?*;wap2 Disallow: /index.php?*;imode Disallow: /attachments/ Disallow: /Packages/ Disallow: /Smileys/ Disallow: /Sources/ Disallow: /Themes/ # Default SMF Actions Disallow: /index.php?theme # Yahoo - Too aggressive # So limit it as much as possible. User-agent: Slurp # Disallow Everything Disallow: / # Now allow bits and then disallow bits Allow: /index.php?action=kitsitemap;xml Allow: /kitsitemap.xml$ Allow: /robots.txt$ Allow: /index.php$ Allow: /index.php?topic=*.0$ Allow: /index.php?topic=*.*0$ Allow: /index.php?topic=*.*5$ Allow: /index.php?board=*.0$ Allow: /index.php?board=*.*0$ Allow: /index.php?board=*.*5$ Disallow: /*?action* Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*msg* # But don't allow these Disallow: /index.php?*.msg Disallow: /index.php?topic=*.msg*0$ Disallow: /index.php?topic=*.msg*5$ Disallow: /index.php?*.new Disallow: /attachments/ Disallow: /Packages/ Disallow: /Smileys/ Disallow: /Sources/ Disallow: /Themes/ # Default SMF Actions Disallow: /index.php?theme # Anything with a ; disallow Disallow: /index.php?*;* # Bad bot - Often ignores robots.txt - Waste of bandwidth # Despite claiming on their website to be a search engine in development # I'm suspicious as to whether they are a harvester pretending to be SE User-agent: Twiceler Disallow: / User-Agent: W3C-checklink Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / # Stop following PHPSESSID's User-Agent: MJ12bot Disallow: /index.php?PHPSESSID # Catch all (remainder) # Will be followed by any bots other than ones identified above # Uses BASIC robots.txt directives without wildcards, end-anchors etc # So Spiders should understand these (including MSNBOT) User-agent: * # Default SMF Folders Disallow: /attachments/ Disallow: /Packages/ Disallow: /Smileys/ Disallow: /Sources/ Disallow: /Themes/ # Default SMF Actions Disallow: /index.php?theme Disallow: /*?action* Disallow: /*sort=* Disallow: /*msg*