# Sample robots.txt file (make sure the filename is ALL LOWERCASE on Linux/Unix systems) # This file should go in your web site's ROOT directory # The root directory is where your site's main /index.html file would be found # It is usually found in /yourhomedir/public_html/ or /yourhomedir/httpdocs # Where "yourhomedir" is your user account's name # This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers User-agent: * # These settings will keep spiders from indexing specific directories and pages # This assumes that your site install is in your web site's ROOT directory # ie: http://www.yoursite.com/index.html <- Use if this brings up your main page # Just Uncomment a line or add new ones as you see fit. Disallow: /css Disallow: /images Disallow: /portfolio # IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE THE GOOGLE IMAGE BOT SCAN YOUR DOMAIN FOR IMAGES # THEN YOU CAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR ROBOTS FILE. # THIS WILL REDUCE BANDWIDTH USAGE AND IMAGE "THEFT" User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /