User-agent: * # Er, google appears to love giving people this page, which, uh, shows the # user how many other queries people did, which is kinda pointless #uncommented so that google finds the empty one so it will stop pointing to it! #Disallow: /archive/queries.txt #Disallow: /archive/queries-recent.txt # oops, google was indexing our backup files and returning them for searches Disallow: /archive/wiki # generated content that shouldn't be crawled Disallow: /webalizer Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /gsdl/cgi-bin/ # Wiki pages that bots shouldn't crawl Disallow: /PhpWikiAdministration Disallow: /AdministrationDePhpWiki Disallow: /AmministrazioneDiPhpWiki # ask all bots to wait n seconds between automated requests Crawl-delay: 5 # the above doesn't seem to work for yahoo's greedy bot. try this as well # note, the following still doesn't work... it's been there for months # and yahoo still gets too many requests too close together User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 15 # bot doesn't honour rel=nofollow, so we'll slow it down User-Agent: MJ12bot Crawl-delay: 30 User-Agent: Jyxobot/1 Crawl-delay: 30