#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.frobee.com/robots-txt-check

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /misc/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /sites/
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)

# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /queue/
Disallow: /flipbook/
Disallow: /advertorials/
Disallow: /strewards/*
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
Disallow: /*?adbypass=*
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /content/
Disallow: /login_details.php
Disallow: /multimedia/graphics/test/*
Disallow: /mbo-headlines/*
Disallow: /widget/*
Disallow: /rewards-polyite
Disallow: /rewards-polyite/spin
Disallow: /polyite-tnc
Disallow: /polyite-faq
Disallow: /rewards-mha
Disallow: /rewards-mha/spin
Disallow: /mha-tnc
Disallow: /mha-faq
Disallow: /p/*
Disallow: /mobile-css/*
Disallow: /sphwave-css/*
Disallow: /gs-taxonomy/*
Disallow: /iab-taxonomy/*
Disallow: /print-sections/*
Disallow: /publications/*
Disallow: /story-source/*
Disallow: /story-threads/*
Disallow: /video-keywords/*
Disallow: /404.html
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