## 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: 2

## DEVELOPMENT RELATED SETTINGS

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

## GENERAL MAGENTO SETTINGS

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

## Do not crawl common Magento technical folders
Disallow: /404/
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /errors/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /magento/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /report/
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /var/

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

## MAGENTO SEO IMPROVEMENTS

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

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

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

## Do not crawl search pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/gallery/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/advanced/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/advanced/result/
Disallow: /blog/cat/
Disallow: /blog/cat/view/identifier/
Disallow: /review/product/list/
Disallow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/
Disallow: /control/
Disallow: /contacts/
Disallow: /customize/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /poll/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: *color=
Disallow: /directory/currency

## Do not crawl specific pages
Disallow: /privacy-policy-cookie-restriction-mode/
Disallow: /terms-and-conditions/

## SERVER SETTINGS

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

## SPECIFIC BOT SETTINGS

## Screaming Frog
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Allow: /
Disallow: /*.gif$
Disallow: /*.jpg$
Disallow: /*.png$
Disallow: /*.bmp$
Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.js$

## Disallow Bots
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: TwengaBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: 008
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: WotBox
Disallow: /
User-agent: Sosospider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZumBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /