# (make sure the filename is ALL LOWERCASE on Linux/Unix systems)
# This file should go in your web site's ROOT directory
#  The root directory is where your site's main /index.html file would be found
#  It is usually found in /yourhomedir/public_html/ or /yourhomedir/httpdocs
#  Where "yourhomedir" is your user account's name

# This says to apply these settings to ALL search engine spiders/crawlers
User-agent: *

# These settings will keep spiders from indexing your unwanted pages 
#   This assumes that your Zen Cart install is in your web site's ROOT directory
#   ie: http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php <- Use if this brings up your Zen Cart main page
Disallow: /catalog/admin
Disallow: /catalog/account.php
Disallow: /catalog/advanced_search.php
Disallow: /catalog/checkout_shipping.php
Disallow: /catalog/create_account.php
Disallow: /catalog/login.php
Disallow: /catalog/login.php
Disallow: /catalog/password_forgotten.php
Disallow: /catalog/popup_image.php
Disallow: /catalog/shopping_cart.php

Disallow: /catalog/admin/
Disallow: /catalog/cache/
Disallow: /catalog/download/
Disallow: /catalog/email/
Disallow: /catalog/extras/
Disallow: /catalog/htmlarea/
Disallow: /catalog/includes/
Disallow: /catalog/INSTALL.TXT
Disallow: /catalog/ipn_main_handler.php
Disallow: /catalog/LICENSE.TXT

Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=advanced_search
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=login
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=product_reviews_write
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=redirect
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=shopping_cart
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=tell_a_friend
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=create_account
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=checkout_shipping
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=password_forgotten
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=ask_a_question
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=product_reviews
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=address_book
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=account_notifications
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=account_password
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=account
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=account_edit
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=account_newsletters
Disallow: /catalog/index.php?main_page=cookie_usage

# Feel free to add any other pages on your site that you don't want to be indexed by 
#  the search engines.  
# PLEASE NOTE: Any pages that you list here should be secured by other means if you 
#  don't want people to be able to view them, as some malicious users will look at a
#  robots.txt file to try to find "hidden" or "secret" areas of web sites to find 
#  confidential information.
# Just Uncomment a line or add new ones as you see fit.
# Disallow: /private
# Disallow: /hidden

# IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO HAVE THE GOOGLE IMAGE BOT SCAN YOUR DOMAIN FOR IMAGES
# THEN YOU CAN INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR ROBOTS FILE.
# I FOUND THAT MY BANDWIDTH USAGE DROPPED BY A MASSIVE AMOUNT AFTER I GOT RID
# OF THE GOOGLE IMAGE BOT. ALL I HAD WAS IMAGE HUNTERS STEALING PRODUCT SHOTS
# AND NOT EVEN BROWSING THE SITE.

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /