The robots.txt file on your website can help you say what gets indexed, crawled and used by the search engines. It is a vital part of your website which is often overlooked. Full details on the robots.txt file can be found on the wiki page @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard however below I have listed the most helpful robots.txt for a Magneto website:
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User-agent: * # Directories Disallow: /404/ Disallow: /app/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /downloader/ Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /js/ Disallow: /lib/ Disallow: /magento/ Disallow: /media/ Disallow: /pkginfo/ Disallow: /report/ Disallow: /skin/ Disallow: /stats/ Disallow: /var/ # Paths (clean URLs) Disallow: /index.php/ Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/ Disallow: /catalog/category/view/ Disallow: /catalog/product/view/ Disallow: /catalogsearch/ Disallow: /checkout/ Disallow: /control/ Disallow: /contacts/ Disallow: /customer/ Disallow: /customize/ Disallow: /newsletter/ Disallow: /poll/ Disallow: /review/ Disallow: /sendfriend/ Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /wishlist/ # Files Disallow: /cron.php Disallow: /cron.sh Disallow: /error_log Disallow: /install.php Disallow: /LICENSE.html Disallow: /LICENSE.txt Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt Disallow: /STATUS.txt # Paths (no clean URLs) Disallow: /*.js$ Disallow: /*.css$ Disallow: /*.php$ Disallow: /*?p=*& Disallow: /*?SID= Sitemap: http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/sitemap.xml |
Simply copy the above into a text file called robots.txt and upload it into the base of your Magento installation (e.g. where index.php is).
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