Robots.txt query

Hi all ( again lol )

Having moved my site to root, im just wanting to make sure my robots.txt file is accurate.

Could someone advise on the following please

Code:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /clientscript/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /photopost/
Disallow: /printthread.php
Disallow: /subscription.php
Disallow: /payments.php
Disallow: /profile.php
Disallow: /faq.php
Disallow: /calendar.php
Disallow: /private.php
Disallow: /sendmessage.php
Disallow: /sendmessage.php?do=
Disallow: /showgroups.php
Disallow: /reputation.php
Disallow: /report.php
Disallow: /threadrate.php
Disallow: /postings.php
Disallow: /newthread.php
Disallow: /newreply.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /faq.php
Disallow: /image.php
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /joinrequests.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /sitemap/
Disallow: /archive/

Should any mention of admin and mod cp be in here?

tia

Hi,

It is believed that including admincp and modcp in the robots.txt file is a security issue as it is globaly readable by anyone. You don't want to be telling people what you don't want to be seen just what you don't want indexed.

As long as there are no links to your admincp / modcp panel globaly viewable and considering there is no content on the page it is very unlikely that it will be indexed anyway.

Ceri

Correct. NEVER publish the location of anything 'secret'. It's actually a pci violation.

The rest of your settings look fine.