################################### # YouPosted.com Smart Robots v3.05 ################################### # This is a smart robots.txt which logs the ip and user agent of every visitor. # Due to the compatibility issues between different bots and whether they support # wildcards (*), multiple user-agents and end-anchors ($), I am providing different # blocks for some. # # Detected Spider/Bot: None # # Headers Sent: # Content-Type: text/plain # Expires: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:40:27 GMT (12 hour validity) # # My Sitemap - I don't provide it just for the fun of it #Sitemap: http # Google - Most Important bot # Unfortunately a robots.txt will only stop it crawling certain urls, and NOT adding any # urls which it comes across into its index. So we're relying on a meta noindex tag. User-agent: Googlebot # Don't index mobile versions Disallow: /index.php?*;wap Disallow: /index.php?*;wap2 Disallow: /index.php?*;imode # Yahoo - Too aggressive # So limit it as much as possible. User-agent: Slurp # Disallow Everything Disallow: /* Disallow: /forums/* # Now allow bits and then disallow bits # But don't allow these Disallow: /index.php?*.msg Disallow: /index.php?topic=*.msg*0$ Disallow: /index.php?topic=*.msg*5$ Disallow: /index.php?*.new # Anything with a ; disallow Disallow: /index.php?*;* # Arcade Related Allow: /index.php?action=arcade$ Allow: /index.php?action=stats$ Allow: /index.php?action=arcade;sa=play;game= # 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: / # 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?action=activate Disallow: /index.php?action=admin Disallow: /index.php?action=calendar Disallow: /index.php?action=emailuser Disallow: /index.php?action=findmember Disallow: /index.php?action=help Disallow: /index.php?action=helpadmin Disallow: /index.php?action=login Disallow: /index.php?action=logout Disallow: /index.php?action=mlist Disallow: /index.php?action=modifykarma Disallow: /index.php?action=pm Disallow: /index.php?action=post Disallow: /index.php?action=printpage Disallow: /index.php?action=profile Disallow: /index.php?action=recent Disallow: /index.php?action=register Disallow: /index.php?action=reminder Disallow: /index.php?action=search Disallow: /index.php?action=theme Disallow: /index.php?action=unread Disallow: /index.php?action=unreadreplies Disallow: /index.php?action=verificationcode Disallow: /index.php?action=who Disallow: /index.php?theme # SMF Mod Related Disallow: /archive.php Disallow: /index.php?action=blog Disallow: /index.php?action=viewblog Disallow: /index.php?action=chess Disallow: /index.php?action=comment Disallow: /index.php?action=downloads Disallow: /index.php?action=links Disallow: /index.php?action=reporttm Disallow: /index.php?action=recenttopics Disallow: /index.php?action=mm Disallow: /index.php?action=sitemap Disallow: /index.php?action=staff Disallow: /index.php?action=tags Disallow: /index.php?action=thankyou Disallow: /index.php?action=viewkarma Disallow: /index.php?action=viewers Disallow: /index.php?f= Disallow: /index.php?filter Disallow: /index.php?referredby Disallow: /Games/ Disallow: /Downloads/ Disallow: /index.php?action=arcade;favorites Disallow: /index.php?action=arcade;sa=highscore Disallow: /index.php?action=arcade;sa=play;random Disallow: /index.php?action=arcade;category Disallow: /index.php?action=arcade;sort Disallow: /index.php?action=arcade;stats Disallow: /index.php?action=stats;expand Disallow: /index.php?action=stats;collapse