## robots.txt for Magento Community and Enterprise

## GENERAL SETTINGS

## Enable robots.txt rules for all crawlers
User-agent: *

## Crawl-delay parameter: number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the same server.
## Set a custom crawl rate if you're experiencing traffic problems with your server.
# Crawl-delay: 30

## Magento sitemap: uncomment and replace the URL to your Magento sitemap file
# Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml

## DEVELOPMENT RELATED SETTINGS

## Do not crawl development files and folders: CVS, svn directories and dump files
Disallow: /shop/CVS
Disallow: /shop/*.svn$
Disallow: /shop/*.idea$
Disallow: /shop/*.sql$
Disallow: /shop/*.tgz$

## GENERAL MAGENTO SETTINGS

## Do not crawl Magento admin page
Disallow: /shop/admin/

## Do not crawl common Magento technical folders
Disallow: /shop/app/
Disallow: /shop/downloader/
Disallow: /shop/errors/
Disallow: /shop/includes/
Disallow: /shop/lib/
Disallow: /shop/pkginfo/
Disallow: /shop/shell/
Disallow: /shop/var/

## Do not crawl common Magento files
Disallow: /shop/api.php
Disallow: /shop/cron.php
Disallow: /shop/cron.sh
Disallow: /shop/error_log
Disallow: /shop/get.php
Disallow: /shop/install.php
Disallow: /shop/LICENSE.html
Disallow: /shop/LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /shop/LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: /shop/README.txt
Disallow: /shop/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

## MAGENTO SEO IMPROVEMENTS

## Do not crawl sub category pages that are sorted or filtered.
Disallow: /shop/*?dir*
Disallow: /shop/*?dir=desc
Disallow: /shop/*?dir=asc
Disallow: /shop/*?limit=all
Disallow: /shop/*?mode*

## Do not crawl 2-nd home page copy (example.com/index.php/). Uncomment it only if you activated Magento SEO URLs.
## Disallow: /shop/index.php/

## Do not crawl links with session IDs
Disallow: /shop/*?SID=

## Do not crawl checkout and user account pages
Disallow: /shop/checkout/
Disallow: /shop/onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /shop/customer/
Disallow: /shop/customer/account/
Disallow: /shop/customer/account/login/

## Do not crawl seach pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links
Disallow: /shop/catalogsearch/
Disallow: /shop/catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /shop/catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /shop/catalog/product/view/

## SERVER SETTINGS

## Do not crawl common server technical folders and files
Disallow: /shop/cgi-bin/
Disallow: /shop/cleanup.php
Disallow: /shop/apc.php
Disallow: /shop/memcache.php
Disallow: /shop/phpinfo.php

## Do not crawl TBA category
Disallow: /shop/to-be-assigned.html

## IMAGE CRAWLERS SETTINGS

## Extra: Uncomment if you do not wish Google and Bing to index your images
# User-agent: Googlebot-Image
# Disallow: /
# User-agent: msnbot-media
# Disallow: /