User-agent: * # applies to all bots, they continue reading #Disallow: / # applies to all bots, they LEAVE thus removed Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # robots, stay away from our back-end Disallow: /images/ # disallow indexing of images, may change later #Establish allowed bots and area over rides for Google User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: # Allows everything EXCEPT the Global set above User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: # Allows everything EXCEPT the Global set above User-agent: Yahoo Disallow: # Allows everything EXCEPT the Global set above User-agent: msnbot Disallow: # Allows everything EXCEPT the Global set above User-agent: AOL Disallow: # Allows everything EXCEPT the Global set above # End of ALLOWED Bots! # Specific Blocks for known problem Bots or marketing sites User-agent: Slurp Disallow: / User-agent: Teoma Disallow: / User-agent: Gigabot Disallow: / User-agent: Scrubby Disallow: / User-agent: Robozilla Disallow: / User-agent: BecomeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Nutch Disallow: / # Last, Block ALL other bots NOT listed above (allowed or blocked) User-agent: * Disallow: / # Moderates Bandwidth during crawls so server doesn't bog down # slow down Googlebot User-agent: Googlebot Crawl-delay: 120 # slow down Yahoo User-agent: yahoo Crawl-delay: 120 # slow down MSNbot User-agent: msnbot Crawl-delay: 120 # slow down AOLbot User-agent: AOL Crawl-delay: 120