# # 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 User-agent: * # CSS, JS, Images Allow: /core/*.css$ Allow: /core/*.css? Allow: /core/*.js$ Allow: /core/*.js? Allow: /core/*.gif Allow: /core/*.jpg Allow: /core/*.jpeg Allow: /core/*.png Allow: /core/*.svg Allow: /profiles/*.css$ Allow: /profiles/*.css? Allow: /profiles/*.js$ Allow: /profiles/*.js? Allow: /profiles/*.gif Allow: /profiles/*.jpg Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg Allow: /profiles/*.png Allow: /profiles/*.svg # Directories Disallow: /core/ Disallow: /profiles/ # Files Disallow: /README.md Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt Disallow: /modules/README.txt Disallow: /sites/README.txt Disallow: /themes/README.txt # 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: /media/oembed Disallow: /*/media/oembed # Paths (no clean URLs) 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: /index.php/media/oembed Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed # Faceted resource browsing. # Each facet combination is a unique URL that can never be served from # cache and costs 12-19s of PHP to render, e.g. # /resources/tools/learning-area/11/learning-area/84/rla/LHA%20Boards # Canonical content stays crawlable: /resources, /resources/tools, and # every /resources/reports/* and /resources/spotlight/* page. Disallow: /*learning-area/ Disallow: /*/rla/ Disallow: /*?*learning-area= Disallow: /*?*type=All # Deep calendar entries. # Crawlers enumerate these sequentially by node ID (/calendar/216201, # /calendar/216202, ...). They duplicate the canonical /event/* pages, # which remain crawlable along with /events and the /calendar landing page. Disallow: /calendar/ # Legacy date-archive query parameters (10s+ renders, no index value). Disallow: /*?*m=20 Disallow: /*?*cat= Disallow: /*?*qt-front_page_tabs= # Front-page pagination (duplicate content, 6-11s renders). Disallow: /?page= # Pace well-behaved crawlers. Honored by Bing, Yandex, marginalia, MJ12bot # and Sogou. Google ignores Crawl-delay -- set the rate in Search Console. Crawl-delay: 10 # Point crawlers at canonical URLs instead of letting them walk facets. Sitemap: https://www.melkinginstitute.org/sitemap.xml