#!/dev/null # ############################################################################# ############################################################################# ## ## Copyright (C) 2007 Rajstennaj Barrabas, Milford, NH 03055 ## All Rights Reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. ## ## FILE ## robots.txt ## ## DESCRIPTION ## Hints for web crawlers ## ## Generally, 1) allow the major search engines ## 2) Disallow the major spam harvestors ## 3) Require them to access the site slowly ## ## VERSION ## 12/10/05 RB - Initial coding ## ############################################################################# ############################################################################# ############################################################################# # # Allow the local cheklink program # User-agent: W3C-checklink Disallow: ############################################################################# # # Disallow the wayback machine # User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / ############################################################################# # # Allow the major search engines # User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: User-agent: MSNBot Disallow: User-agent: Slurp Disallow: User-agent: Teoma Disallow: User-agent: Gigabot Disallow: User-agent: Scrubby Disallow: User-agent: Robozilla Disallow: User-agent: Nutch Disallow: User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: User-agent: baiduspider Disallow: User-agent: yahoo-mmcrawler Disallow: User-agent: psbot Disallow: User-agent: asterias Disallow: User-agent: yahoo-blogs/v3.9 Disallow: ############################################################################# # # Disallow the advertising-related bots: # User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: / User-agent: IsraBot Disallow: User-agent: Orthogaffe Disallow: ############################################################################# # # Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have # unless they're feeding search engines. # User-agent: UbiCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: DOC Disallow: / User-agent: Zao Disallow: / ############################################################################# # # Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy # entire sites. Please obey robots.txt. # User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: WebZIP Disallow: / User-agent: linko Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu Disallow: / User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: libwww Disallow: / User-agent: ZyBORG Disallow: / User-agent: Download Ninja Disallow: / # # Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem. # Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a # --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits, # for instance. # User-agent: wget Disallow: / # # The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved. # User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / # # Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but... # User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / # # Hits many times per second, not acceptable # http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html # User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / # # A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit # http://www.webreaper.net/ # User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / # # Disallow everyone else, don't let them drag down the site # with their crawling # User-agent: * Disallow: / Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /Images Crawl-delay: 120