## robots.txt for Magento Community and Enterprise ## GENERAL SETTINGS ## Enable robots.txt rules for all crawlers User-agent: * # Deny all robots that we do not specifically want to allow User-agent: msnbot Disallow: / User-agent: bingbot Disallow: / # Allow these robots only User-agent: googlebot Allow: / User-agent: googlemobile Allow: / ## Crawl-delay parameter: number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the same server. ## Set a custom crawl rate if you're experiencing traffic problems with your server. # Crawl-delay: 30 ## Magento sitemap: uncomment and replace the URL to your Magento sitemap file Sitemap: http://www.thelensdepot.com/sitemap.xml ## DEVELOPMENT RELATED SETTINGS ## Do not crawl development files and folders: CVS, svn directories and dump files Disallow: /CVS Disallow: /*.svn$ Disallow: /*.idea$ Disallow: /*.sql$ Disallow: /*.tgz$ # Disallow: /sitemap.xml$ ## GENERAL MAGENTO SETTINGS ## Do not crawl Magento admin page Disallow: /admin/ ## Do not crawl common Magento technical folders Disallow: /app/ Disallow: /downloader/ Disallow: /errors/ Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /lib/ Disallow: /pkginfo/ Disallow: /shell/ Disallow: /var/ ## Do not crawl common Magento files Disallow: /api.php Disallow: /cron.php Disallow: /cron.sh Disallow: /error_log Disallow: /get.php Disallow: /install.php Disallow: /LICENSE.html Disallow: /LICENSE.txt Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt Disallow: /README.txt Disallow: /RELEASE_NOTES.txt ## MAGENTO SEO IMPROVEMENTS ## Do not crawl sub category pages that are sorted or filtered. Disallow: /*?dir* #Disallow: /*?dir=desc Disallow: /*?dir=asc #Disallow: /*?limit=all Disallow: /*?mode* ## Do not crawl 2-nd home page copy (example.com/index.php/). Uncomment it only if you activated Magento SEO URLs. #Disallow: /index.php/ ## Do not crawl links with session IDs Disallow: /*?SID= ## Do not crawl checkout and user account pages Disallow: /checkout/ Disallow: /onestepcheckout/ Disallow: /customer/ Disallow: /customer/account/ Disallow: /customer/account/login/ Disallow: /control/ Disallow: /contacts/ Disallow: /customize/ Disallow: /poll/ Disallow: /review/ Disallow: /sendfriend/ Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /wishlist/ ## Do not crawl seach pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links #Disallow: /catalogsearch/ Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/ #Disallow: /catalog/category/view/ #Disallow: /catalog/product/view/ ## SERVER SETTINGS ## Do not crawl common server technical folders and files Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /cleanup.php Disallow: /apc.php Disallow: /memcache.php Disallow: /phpinfo.php ## IMAGE CRAWLERS SETTINGS ## Extra: Uncomment if you do not wish Google and Bing to index your images # User-agent: Googlebot-Image # Disallow: / # User-agent: msnbot-media # Disallow: /