User-agent: * User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 User-agent: InfoNaviRobot User-agent: TV33_Mercator User-agent: AVSearch User-agent: Mercator User-agent: Scooter User-agent: Slurp User-agent: SearchengineLicenceSheep User-agent: shadow User-agent: MultiText User-agent: FAST-WebCrawler User-agent: Lycos_Spider User-agent: Atomz User-agent: htdig User-agent: spider00.logika.net User-agent: NetMechanic User-agent: libwww-perl User-agent: Teleport Pro Disallow: /yoga Disallow: /backup Disallow: /myadminsql Disallow: /sounds Disallow: /stats User-agent: EmailSiphon Disallow:/ User-agent: Cherry Piker Disallow:/ Entry Meaning User-agent: * Disallow: The asterisk (*) in the User-agent field is shorthand for "all robots". Because nothing is disallowed, everything is allowed. User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /private/ In this example, all robots can visit every directory except the three mentioned. User-agent: BadBot Disallow: / In this case, the BadBot robot is not allowed to see anything. The slash is shorthand for "all directories" The User Agent can be any unique substring, and robots are not supposed to care about capitalization. User-agent: BadBot Disallow: /