# robots.txt for http://linkwaregraphics.com/ # exclude images from Google # see http://www.google.com/remove.html#images # For Yahoo Slurp see http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-02.html # SurveyBot http://www.whois.sc/info/webmasters/surveybot.html # updated 2005-05-19 # # The alphabetized list is adapted (a lot) from # WebmasterWorld.com: robots.txt # GNU Robots.txt. Used with permission. # http://webmasterworld.com/robots.txt # I alphabetized the list, removed some, added some. # 2005-09-17 1953pm, pdt # # IMPORTANT: We do NOT allow non-authorized robots. # # For those wondering, yes, many bad bots disregard or # don't even look at the robots.txt file. I've taken other # measures to keep them out, including some in the list # below that don't behave nicely. ;-) # (which I won't divulge publicly as I don't want any # bad guys to know what I do). # Unfortunately, we can't rely on all bots to mind or # even look at the robots.txt file. Some of them are up # to no good or go nutso and cause drain on servers, sadly. # User-agent: Slurp Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /contact Disallow: /c/ Disallow: /css2 Disallow: /dtr Disallow: /i/ Disallow: /im Disallow: /img Disallow: /images/headers Disallow: /images/icons Disallow: /images/nav Disallow: /images/webrings Disallow: /includes Disallow: /j/ Disallow: /js2 Disallow: /js3 Disallow: /music/images/headers Disallow: /music/img/ Disallow: /music/i/ Disallow: /music/im/ Disallow: /music/sets/dtr Disallow: /secret Disallow: /sifr Disallow: /sifr/js Disallow: /sf Disallow: /styles ## User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /contact Disallow: /c/ Disallow: /css2 Disallow: /dtr Disallow: /i/ Disallow: /im Disallow: /img Disallow: /images/headers Disallow: /images/icons Disallow: /images/nav Disallow: /images/webrings Disallow: /includes Disallow: /j/ Disallow: /js2 Disallow: /js3 Disallow: /music/images/headers Disallow: /music/img/ Disallow: /music/i/ Disallow: /music/im/ Disallow: /music/sets/dtr Disallow: /secret Disallow: /sifr Disallow: /sifr/js Disallow: /sf Disallow: /styles #### ## A User-agent: Alexibot Disallow: / User-agent: Aqua_Products Disallow: / User-agent: asterias Disallow: / ## B User-agent: b2w/0.1 Disallow: / User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: BecomeBot Disallow: / User-agent: BlowFish/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Bookmark search tool Disallow: / User-agent: BotALot Disallow: / User-agent: BuiltBotTough Disallow: / User-agent: Bullseye/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: BunnySlippers Disallow: / ## C User-agent: CheeseBot Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPicker Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Copernic Disallow: / User-agent: CopyRightCheck Disallow: / User-agent: cosmos Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0 Disallow: / ## D User-agent: DittoSpyder Disallow: / User-agent: dumbot Disallow: / ## E User-agent: EmailCollector Disallow: / User-agent: EmailSiphon Disallow: / User-agent: EmailWolf Disallow: / User-agent: Enterprise_Search/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Enterprise_Search Disallow: / User-agent: EroCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: es Disallow: / User-agent: ExtractorPro Disallow: / ## F User-agent: FairAd Client Disallow: / User-agent: Flaming AttackBot Disallow: / User-agent: Foobot Disallow: / User-agent: FreeFind Disallow: / ## G User-agent: Gaisbot Disallow: / User-agent: GetRight/4.2 Disallow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / User-agent: grub Disallow: / ## H User-agent: Harvest/1.5 Disallow: / User-agent: Hatena Antenna Disallow: / User-agent: hloader Disallow: / User-agent: http://www.SearchEngineWorld.com bot Disallow: / User-agent: http://www.WebmasterWorld.com bot Disallow: / User-agent: humanlinks Disallow: / User-agent: httplib Disallow: / ## I #User-agent: ia_archiver #Disallow: / #User-agent: ia_archiver/1.6 #Disallow: / User-agent: InfoNaviRobot Disallow: / User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2 Disallow: / ## J User-agent: JennyBot Disallow: / User-agent: Jetbot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Jetbot Disallow: / ## K User-agent: Kenjin Spider Disallow: / User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9 Disallow: / ## L User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: LexiBot Disallow: / User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP Disallow: / User-agent: LinkextractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix Disallow: / User-agent: LinkWalker Disallow: / User-agent: looksmart Disallow: / User-agent: LNSpiderguy Disallow: / User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34 Disallow: / User-agent: lwp-trivial Disallow: / ## M User-agent: Mata Hari Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft URL Control Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511 Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169 Disallow: / User-agent: MIIxpc Disallow: / User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2 Disallow: / User-agent: Mister PiX Disallow: / User-agent: moget Disallow: / User-agent: moget/2.1 Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla Disallow: / User-agent: mozilla Disallow: / User-agent: mozilla/3 Disallow: / User-agent: mozilla/4 Disallow: / User-agent: mozilla/5 Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 98) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows XP) Disallow: / User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 2000) Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / ## N User-agent: naver Disallow: / User-agent: NetAnts Disallow: / User-agent: NetMechanic Disallow: / User-agent: NICErsPRO Disallow: / User-agent: Nutch Disallow: / ## O User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: OmniExplorer_Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Openbot Disallow: / User-agent: Openfind Disallow: / User-agent: Openfind data gathere Disallow: / User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search Disallow: / ## P User-agent: PerMan Disallow: / User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14 Disallow: / User-agent: ProWebWalker Disallow: / User-agent: psbot Disallow: / User-agent: Python-urllib Disallow: / ## Q User-agent: QueryN Metasearch Disallow: / ## R User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1 Disallow: / User-agent: RepoMonkey Disallow: / User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01 Disallow: / User-agent: RMA Disallow: / ## S User-agent: scooter Disallow: / User-agent: searchpreview Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: sootle Disallow: / User-agent: SpankBot Disallow: / User-agent: spanner Disallow: / User-agent: Stanford Disallow: / User-agent: Stanford Comp Sci Disallow: / User-agent: suzuran Disallow: / User-agent: Szukacz/1.4 Disallow: / ## T User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: Telesoft Disallow: / User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher Disallow: / User-agent: The Intraformant Disallow: / User-agent: TheNomad Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot Disallow: / User-agent: turingos Disallow: / ## U User-agent: URL Control Disallow: / User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro Disallow: / User-agent: URLy Warning Disallow: / ## V User-agent: VCI Disallow: / User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32 Disallow: / ## W User-agent: Web Image Collector Disallow: / User-agent: WebAuto Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit/3.50 Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: WebEnhancer Disallow: / User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot Disallow: / User-agent: Website Quester Disallow: / User-agent: WebSauger Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebVac Disallow: / User-agent: WebZip Disallow: / User-agent: WebZip/4.0 Disallow: / User-agent: WebmasterWorld Extractor Disallow: / User-agent: Webster Pro Disallow: / User-agent: Wget/1.6 Disallow: / User-agent: Wget/1.5.3 Disallow: / User-agent: Wget Disallow: / User-agent: WWW-Collector-E Disallow: / ## Z User-agent: Zeus Disallow: / User-agent: Zeus Link Scout Disallow: / User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32 Disallow: / ## # END OF LIST ADAPTED (A LOT) FROM WEBMASTERWOLD # 2005-09-17 18.00PM PDT # User-agent: arks Disallow: / User-agent: envolk[ITS]spider/1.6 Disallow: / # # MY ONGOING LIST WITH EXCLUSIONS User0agent: ia_archiver User-agent: Baiduspider User-agent: btbot User-agent: Girafabot User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: Googlebot-Image User-agent: Jeeves User-agent: MSNBot User-agent: msnbot User-agent: SrevBot User-agent: Slurp User-agent: SurveyBot User-agent: Teoma User-agent: Yahoo-MMCrawler User-agent: * # exclude some areas Disallow: /contact Disallow: /c/ Disallow: /css2 Disallow: /dtr Disallow: /i/ Disallow: /im Disallow: /img Disallow: /images Disallow: /j/ Disallow: /js2 Disallow: /js3 Disallow: /music/images Disallow: /music/img Disallow: /music/i/ Disallow: /music/im/ Disallow: /music/sets/dtr Disallow: /secret Disallow: /sifr Disallow: /sifr/js Disallow: /sf Disallow: /styles Disallow: /*.cgi$ Disallow: /*.css$ Disallow: /*.js$ Disallow: /*.pl$ # Disallow: /*.gif$ # Disallow: /*.jpg$ # Disallow: /*.png$