#EXAMPLE METHOD #1. EXCLUDE BY FILE NAME. # #If viewing in Notepad please turn word wrap off for best results #This is an example robots.txt file #A robots.txt file should always be placed directly under your server's #root directory. Placing it anywhere else is useless. # #Tip: If you use this file as your template, remove all the comments # before uploading it. # #Tip #2: To avoid potential discrimination, avoid naming your files #or directories where they include the name or initials of the #search engine. Instead, use generic names like "Product1" or #"Product2", etc. # # #This subsection will show how to disallow all pages from AltaVista, #except for MyAltaVistaPage.html which is not included in the list of #disallowed pages below. AltaVista's agent name is called "Scooter". #The idea below is to exclude all pages that do not apply to AltaVista. #You would of course replace these pages with your own page names. Your #list of pages will probably be longer if you have more than one page #designed for each search engine. The example below only shows #one page per engine. Therefore, you may want to consider #excluding files organized by directory to avoid this file getting too #large. #Although we only list MyInktomiPage.html below, you could have #different pages for every site that uses the Inktomi engine to some #extent like MSN, Google, Iwon, etc. User-agent: Scooter Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyFastWebPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow all pages from Infoseek/Go, #except for the MyInfoseekPage.html which is not included in the list of #disallowed pages below. User-agent: Infoseek Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyFastWebPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow the Inktomi spider from the #non-Inktomi pages below. #Therefore Hotbot, MSN, Goto, Snap, Looksmart, AOL Search and Iwon will #all have access to your Inktomi pages since they are Inktomi based #engines. #We are not aware of a way to handle each Inktomi engine differently #since they all depend on the same spider. However, many times #a handful of well designed pages can get you ranked well in all #the Inktomi engines. User-agent: Slurp Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyFastWebPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow the Excite spider from the #non-Excite/WebCrawler pages below. #Therefore Excite and WebCrawler will both #have access to your Excite & WebCrawler pages since they are both #Excite-based engines. #We are not aware of a way to handle Excite & WebCrawler differently #since they both depend on the same spider. User-agent: ArchitextSpider Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyFastWebPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow the Google spider from all #non-Google pages. #Therefore Google, Netscape, and Yahoo Web Pages will #all have access to your Google/Netscape/Yahoo files since they are #Google based engines. #We are not aware of a way to handle each Google engine differently #since they all depend on the same spider. However, many times #a handful of well designed pages can get you ranked well in all the #Google engines. User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyFastWebPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow all pages from Lycos, except #for MyLycosPage.html which is not included in the list of disallowed #pages below. User-agent: Lycos Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyFastWebPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow all pages from Fast, except #for MyFastWebPage.html which is not included in the list of disallowed #pages below User-agent: Fast Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyDirectHitPage.html #This subsection will show how to disallow all pages from DirectHit #except for MyDirectHitPage.html which is not included in the list of #disallowed pages below User-agent: Grabber Disallow: /MyAltaVistaPage.html Disallow: /MyInfoseekPage.html Disallow: /MyInktomiPage.html Disallow: /MyExcitePage.html Disallow: /MyGooglePage.html Disallow: /MyLycosPage.html Disallow: /MyFastPage.html **Use your "Back" button**