Sitemap: https://www.deccanherald.com/news_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.deccanherald.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Allow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

#Consuming bandwidth
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

#Yandex Russian Search Engine Bots.. consuming significant bandwidth.. disallowed on 3-Oct-2023 
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: *

# Directories
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /newsletter-ads.html
Disallow: /brandspot/pr-spot/
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /taxonomy/*
Disallow: /node/*
 
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/

# Custom paths
Disallow: /updateemoji
Disallow: /updatestats
Disallow: /updateemoji*
Disallow: /updatestats*