User-agent: * # match all bots Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # keep them out Disallow: /img/ Disallow: /doc/ Disallow: /docs/ Disallow: /dat/ Disallow: /css/ Disallow: /tpl/ Disallow: /xml/ Disallow: /xsl/ # Keep out specific bot User-agent: BadBot Disallow: /private/ # Block access to a specific file User-agent: * Disallow: /error.html # The site map # Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz # Set to the number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the server (not supported by all bots) User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 Request-rate: 1/5 # maximum rate is one page every 5 seconds Visit-time: 0600-0845 # only visit between 1:00 AM and 2:45 AM UT (GMT) User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /