Robots, spiders, and search engines use this file to detmine which content they should *not* crawl while indexing your website. This system is called "The Robots Exclusion Standard." It is strongly encouraged to use a robots.txt validator to check for valid syntax before any robots read it! Examples: Restrict Google and MSN from indexing your images. User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /images/ User-agent: MSNBot Disallow: /images/ User-agent: Baidu Spider Disallow: /images/ User-agent: proximic Disallow: /registration.php/ User-agent: proximic Disallow: /online.php/ User-agent: proximic Disallow: /vbsuper_pm.php/ User-agent: google Disallow: /registration.php/ User-agent: google Disallow: /online.php/ User-agent: google Disallow: /vbsuper_pm.php/ User-agent: google Disallow: /vbsuper_pm.php?do=auto_reply&action=get_autoreply/ User-agent: proximic Disallow: /vbsuper_pm.php?do=auto_reply&action=get_autoreply/ User-agent: proximic Disallow: /thanks.php?do=statistics/ User-agent: google Disallow: /thanks.php?do=statistics/ User-agent: proximic Disallow: /private.php/ User-agent: google Disallow: /private.php/ User-agent: BoardTracker Disallow: / User-agent: Gigabot Disallow: / User-agent: Twiceler Disallow: / User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 2 User-agent: msnbot Crawl-delay: 2 User-agent: * User-agent: * Disallow: *.js Disallow: /clientscript/ Disallow: /cpstyles/ Disallow: /customavatars/ Disallow: /customprofilepics/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /forum/ajax.php Disallow: /forum/attachment.php Disallow: /forum/album.php Disallow: /forum/thanks.php Disallow: /forum/thanks.php?do=statistics Disallow: /forum/calendar.php Disallow: /forum/cron.php Disallow: /forum/editpost.php Disallow: /forum/global.php Disallow: /forum/image.php Disallow: /forum/inlinemod.php Disallow: /forum/joinrequests.php Disallow: /forum/login.php Disallow: /forum/member.php Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php Disallow: /forum/misc.php Disallow: /forum/private.php Disallow: /forum/online.php Disallow: /forum/online.php?s= Disallow: /forum/moderator.php Disallow: /forum/newattachment.php Disallow: /forum/newreply.php Disallow: /forum/newthread.php Disallow: /forum/poll.php Disallow: /forum/post.php Disallow: /forum/postings.php Disallow: /forum/printthread.php Disallow: /forum/private.php Disallow: /forum/profile.php Disallow: /forum/register.php Disallow: /forum/report.php Disallow: /forum/reputation.php Disallow: /forum/search.php Disallow: /forum/sendmessage.php Disallow: /forum/showgroups.php Disallow: /forum/subscription.php Disallow: /forum/showpost.php Disallow: /forum/threadrate.php Disallow: /forum/usercp.php Disallow: /forum/usernote.php