Only googlebot,slurp and msnbot should crawl my site.

[birdsq]

Please help!!
I need only google, yahoo and msn to crawl my site..
How can i do that?

[evera]

You can try this robots.txt, but most spiders don't care about robots.txt anyways, so maybe it won't help much. And its not complete some spiders are maybe missing:



User-Agent: Teoma
User-Agent: Ask Jeeves
User-Agent: Jeeves
User-agent: Seekbot/1.0
User-agent: seekbot
User-agent: EchO!/2.0
User-agent: echo!
User-agent: convera
User-agent: Convera Internet Spider V6.x
User-agent: ConveraCrawler/0.2
User-agent: ConveraCrawler/0.9d
User-agent: ConveraMultiMediaCrawler/0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves)
User-agent: aipbot
User-agent: Aqua_Products
User-agent: asterias
User-agent: b2w/0.1
User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
User-agent: becomebot
User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
User-agent: Bookmark search tool
User-agent: BotALot
User-agent: BotRightHere
User-agent: BuiltBotTough
User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
User-agent: BunnySlippers
User-agent: CheeseBot
User-agent: CherryPicker
User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
User-agent: Copernic
User-agent: CopyRightCheck
User-agent: cosmos
User-agent: Crescent
User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
User-agent: Curl
User-agent: DittoSpyder
User-agent: EmailCollector
User-agent: EmailSiphon
User-agent: EmailWolf
User-agent: EroCrawler
User-agent: ExtractorPro
User-agent: FairAd Client
User-agent: Fasterfox
User-agent: Flaming AttackBot
User-agent: Foobot
User-agent: Gaisbot
User-agent: GetRight/4.2
User-agent: Harvest/1.5
User-agent: hloader
User-agent: httplib
User-agent: HTTrack 3.0
User-agent: humanlinks
User-agent: IconSurf
User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
User-agent: Iron33/1.0.2
User-agent: JennyBot
User-agent: Kenjin Spider
User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
User-agent: larbin
User-agent: LexiBot
User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
User-agent: LinkextractorPro
User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
User-agent: LinkWalker
User-agent: LNSpiderguy
User-agent: lwp-trivial
User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
User-agent: Mata Hari
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169
User-agent: MIIxpc
User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
User-agent: Mister PiX
User-agent: moget
User-agent: moget/2.1
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95)
User-agent: MSIECrawler
User-agent: NetAnts
User-agent: NetMechanic
User-agent: NICErsPRO
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: Openbot
User-agent: Openfind
User-agent: Openfind data gatherer
User-agent: Oracle Ultra Search
User-agent: PerMan
User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
User-agent: ProWebWalker
User-agent: psbot
User-agent: Python-urllib
User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
User-agent: Radiation Retriever 1.1
User-agent: RepoMonkey
User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
User-agent: RMA
User-agent: searchpreview
User-agent: SiteSnagger
User-agent: seekbot
User-agent: Seekbot
User-agent: Seekbot/1.0
User-agent: SpankBot
User-agent: spanner
User-agent: SurveyBot
User-agent: suzuran
User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
User-agent: Teleport
User-agent: TeleportPro
User-agent: Telesoft
User-agent: The Intraformant
User-agent: TheNomad
User-agent: TightTwatBot
User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
User-agent: True_Robot
User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
User-agent: turingos
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: TurnitinBot/1.5
User-agent: URL Control
User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
User-agent: URLy Warning
User-agent: VCI
User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
User-agent: Web Image Collector
User-agent: WebAuto
User-agent: WebBandit
User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
User-agent: WebCapture 2.0
User-agent: WebCopier
User-agent: WebCopier v.2.2
User-agent: WebCopier v3.2a
User-agent: WebEnhancer
User-agent: Web Reaper
User-agent: WebSauger
User-agent: Website Quester
User-agent: Webster Pro
User-agent: WebStripper
User-agent: WebZip
User-agent: WebZip
User-agent: WebZip/4.0
User-agent: WebZIP/4.21
User-agent: WebZIP/5.0
User-agent: WebVulnCrawl
User-agent: WebVulnScan
User-agent: Wget
User-agent: wget
User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
User-agent: Wget/1.6
User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
User-agent: Xenu's
User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c
User-agent: Zeus
User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
User-agent: Zeus Link Scout
Disallow: /

[BlogSalesman]

Is there a reason you went with disallow, and didn't just do the 3 bots he wants and allow?

[evera]

The reason is the robots exclusion standard never defined allow, because the robots.txt is to exclude stuff.

[MichelRobinson2]

This code is very good but I know one think its working properly or not

[harrysmith]

Please help!!
I need only google, yahoo and msn to crawl my site..
How can i do that?

You can block other spiders using robots.txt file.
Also if you want to restrict certain pages you may use <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> so that those pages will not get crawl/indexed ( if you are looking forthe same )