User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /inc/ Disallow: /shopathome/process.html Disallow: /shopathome/admin/ Disallow: /list-email/process.php Disallow: /list-email/admin/ Disallow: /entropybanner/ #Disallow: /gallery/ Disallow: /new_home_owners/process.html Disallow: /new_home_owners/admin/ Disallow: /sphider/ Disallow: /contact/admin/ Disallow: /contact/process.html Disallow: /php.ini Disallow: /survey/ Disallow: error_log Disallow: /company/links/xchng/admin/ Disallow: /window-treatment-sweepstakes/admin/ Disallow: /window-treatment-sweepstakes/process.php Sitemap: Sitemap: # Created 05/05/06 TS # Updated 11/14/06 TS # Updated 12/05/06 TS # Updated 12/12/06 TS # Updated 07/17/07 TS Added Sitemap: & Sitemap: # Updated 05/29/08 TS Disallow /survey/ # Updated 08/27/08 TS Many changes #The syntax of: #Disallow: /directory/ #Is 100% the appropriate way of disallowing a directory, the alternate method of. # #Disallow: /directory #Will disallow the directory as well as any pages of the same name. # #A request for example.com/directory will be forwarded to example.com/directory/index.ext which is the true url. Regardless of whether the request was made to /directory if #we have disallowed /directory/ then the robot should not index this link based on the standard if that bot follows robots.txt. #I understand that robots still do but that is the fault of the bot in question. The trailing slash is the appropriate way to disallow a directory in its entirety and only that #directory.