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indigo
Your domain’s “PC Robots.txt” file is important for directing search engine spiders and other crawling robots that can seriously take up some bandwidth and affect your site load times. Of course some of this traffic from automated robots is necessary and absolutely wanted, you do want Google to read ALL your pages right? But what about more malicious robots? Maybe the ones that are just scanning your site to pick up email addresses and contact information that will be used to spam your inbox and phones til they explode!
Well do not fear, the purpose of your PC Robots.txt is to direct the good spiders and block the bad ones. It’s done in a simple list format and addresses each bot specifically.
Google webmaster tools has a checker and can also help you write one. The generic setup that I use is simple and works well for most malicious bots.
General PC Robots.txt
User-agent: AlexibotDisallow: /
User-agent: Aqua_Products
Disallow: /
User-agent: asterias
Disallow: /
User-agent: b2w/0.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bookmark search tool
Disallow: /
User-agent: BotALot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BotRightHere
Disallow: /
User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: BunnySlippers
Disallow: /
User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Copernic
Disallow: /
User-agent: CopyRightCheck
Disallow: /
User-agent: cosmos
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crescent
Disallow: /
User-agent: DittoSpyder
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailSiphon
Disallow: /
User-agent: EmailWolf
Disallow: /
User-agent: EroCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: ExtractorPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: FairAd Client
Disallow: /
User-agent: Flaming AttackBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Foobot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Gaisbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: GetRight/4.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: hloader
Disallow: /
User-agent: httplib
Disallow: /
User-agent: HTTrack 3.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: humanlinks
Disallow: /
User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: JennyBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Kenjin Spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
Disallow: /
User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /
User-agent: LexiBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkextractorPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /
User-agent: LNSpiderguy
Disallow: /
User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
Disallow: /
User-agent: lwp-trivial
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mata Hari
Disallow: /
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control – 5.01.4511
Disallow: /
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control – 6.00.8169
Disallow: /
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control
Disallow: /
User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: MIIxpc
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mister PiX
Disallow: /
User-agent: moget/2.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: moget
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95)
Disallow: /
User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: NetAnts
Disallow: /
User-agent: NICErsPRO
Disallow: /
User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /
User-agent: Openbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Openfind data gatherer
Disallow: /
User-agent: Openfind
Disallow: /
User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search
Disallow: /
User-agent: PerMan
Disallow: /
User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
Disallow: /
User-agent: ProWebWalker
Disallow: /
User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Python-urllib
Disallow: /
User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
Disallow: /
User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
Disallow: /
User-agent: RepoMonkey
Disallow: /
User-agent: RMA
Disallow: /
User-agent: searchpreview
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /
User-agent: SpankBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: spanner
Disallow: /
User-agent: suzuran
Disallow: /
User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
Disallow: /
User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /
User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /
User-agent: Telesoft
Disallow: /
User-agent: The Intraformant
Disallow: /
User-agent: TheNomad
Disallow: /
User-agent: TightTwatBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
Disallow: /
User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: True_Robot
Disallow: /
User-agent: turingos
Disallow: /
User-agent: TurnitinBot/1.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: URL Control
Disallow: /
User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
Disallow: /
User-agent: URLy Warning
Disallow: /
User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: VCI
Disallow: /
User-agent: Web Image Collector
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebAuto
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebBandit
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebCapture 2.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebCopier v.2.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebCopier v3.2a
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebEnhancer
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebSauger
Disallow: /
User-agent: Website Quester
Disallow: /
User-agent: Webster Pro
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZip/4.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZIP/4.21
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZIP/5.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZip
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget/1.6
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /
User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu’s Link Sleuth 1.1c
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu’s
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus Link Scout
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus
Disallow: /
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
