# The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew provides this website for the benefit # of the general public and the wider scientific community of which it # is a part. Much of the scientific content is provided dynamically from # databases. These are not designed for the heavy load from site # crawlers or mirroring software. If you wish to crawl this site, or # create a mirror, we would appreciate your cooperation in advance by # contacting webmaster@kew.org and we will try to accomodate your # requirements in the most efficient way possible. Thank you. User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /Telnet Disallow: /icons Disallow: /_vti_cnf Disallow: /Library Disallow: /library Disallow: /_notes Disallow: /extranet/ Disallow: /uhtbin Disallow: /mailman Disallow: /pipermail Disallow: /search/search Disallow: /ucm/idcplg Disallow: /ucm/igcolorbox/ # added allow rule 08/02/12 to see if this will increase Google indexing of images Allow: /ucm/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=* # 29/04/2012 - DS decreased crawl from 30 sec to 1 to resolve issue with PRODUCTION server - KPPUCM03 Crawl-delay: 1 #User-agent: msnbot #Crawl-delay: 30 # #User-agent: msnbot-media #Crawl-delay: 30 # #User-agent: Slurp #Crawl-delay: 30 # #User-agent: ConveraCrawler* ##Crawl-delay: 30 Sitemap: http://www.kew.org/sitemap.xml Disallow: /about-kew/cs-jobs/index.htm Disallow: /about-kew/cs-jobs/ Disallow: /about-kew/cs-jobs/* Disallow: /about-kew/civil-service-jobs/* Disallow: /kbd/* User-agent: Googlebot-Image Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: Googlebot Crawl-delay: 5