# HOW TO USE THIS FILE: # 1) Edit this file to change "/forum/" to the correct relative path from your base URL, for example if your ipb was at "domain.com/sites/community", then you'd use "/sites/community/" # 2) Rename the file to 'robots.txt' and move it to your web root (public_html, www, or htdocs) # 3) Edit the file to remove this comment (anything above the dashed line, including the dashed line # # NOTES: # Even though wild cards and pattern matching are not part of the robots.txt specification, many search bots understand and make use of them #------------------------ REMOVE THIS LINE AND EVERYTHING ABOVE SO THAT User-agent: * IS THE FIRST LINE ------------------------------------------ User-agent: * crawl-delay: 10 Disallow: /ipb/admin/ Disallow: /ipb/cache/ Disallow: /ipb/converge_local/ Disallow: /ipb/hooks/ Disallow: /ipb/ips_kernel/ Disallow: /ipb/retail/ Disallow: /ipb/public/style_captcha/ Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=core&module=task Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=ipbs&module=moderate§ion=moderate Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=ipbs&module=extras§ion=forward Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=members&module=chat Disallow: /ipb/index.php?&unlockUserAgent=1 Disallow: /ipb/*&module=search Allow: /ipb/*&search_tags= Disallow: /ipb/*app=core&module=global§ion=reputation Disallow: /ipb/*app=core&module=usercp Disallow: /ipb/*app=members&module=messaging Disallow: /ipb/*&p= Disallow: /ipb/*&pid= Disallow: /ipb/*&hl= Disallow: /ipb/*&start= Disallow: /ipb/*view__getnewpost$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__getlastpost$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__old$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__new$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__getfirst$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__getprevious$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__getnext$ Disallow: /ipb/*view__getlast$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=getnewpost$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=getlastpost$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=old$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=new$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=getfirst$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=getprevious$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=getnext$ Disallow: /ipb/*&view=getlast$ Disallow: /ipb/*?s= Disallow: /ipb/*&s= Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=core&module=global§ion=login&do=deleteCookies Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=ipbs&module=extras§ion=rating Disallow: /ipb/index.php?app=ipbs&module=ipbs§ion=markasread Disallow: /ipb/*&do=who Disallow: /ipb/*§ion=dname Disallow: /temp/ Disallow: /newsbanners/ Disallow: /awards/ Disallow: /winners/ User-agent: Yandex Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: /