# General Crawler Rules for website User-agent: * Allow: / # Block sensitive directories and payment processing paths Disallow: /ccbill/ Disallow: /members/ # Block specific search query strings to prevent duplicate content Disallow: /*?s= Disallow: /*?search= # Explicitly allow Google and Bing to crawl your media thumbnails User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /images/ User-agent: bingspider Allow: /images/