User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/admin/
Disallow: /forum/profile/
Disallow: /forum/search/
Disallow: /forum/messenger/
Disallow: /forum/followed/
Disallow: /forum/settings/
Disallow: /forum/notifications/
Disallow: /forum/ignore/
Disallow: /forum/logout/
Disallow: /forum/login/
Disallow: /forum/modcp/
Disallow: /forum/tags/
Disallow: /forum/applications/
Disallow: /forum/online/
Disallow: /news/report/
Disallow: /news/main/
Disallow: /ads/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /forum/?app=core&module=search
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /comments/quote/
Disallow: /comments/like/
Disallow: /comments/reply/

# Rules for Invision Community (https://invisioncommunity.com)
# Block pages with no unique content
Disallow: /forum/startTopic/
Disallow: /forum/*?do=add
Disallow: /forum/*?do=submit
Disallow: /forum/discover/unread/
Disallow: /forum/markallread/
Disallow: /forum/staff/
Disallow: /forum/online/
Disallow: /forum/discover/
Disallow: /forum/leaderboard/
Disallow: /forum/search/
Disallow: /forum/*?advancedSearchForm=
Disallow: /forum/register/
Disallow: /forum/lostpassword/
Disallow: /forum/login/

# Block faceted pages and 301 redirect pages
Disallow: /forum/*?sortby=
Disallow: /forum/*?filter=
Disallow: /forum/*?tab=comments
Disallow: /forum/*?do=email
Disallow: /forum/*?do=findComment
Disallow: /forum/*?do=getLastComment
Disallow: /forum/*?do=getNewComment
Disallow: /forum/*?do=markRead

# Block profile pages as these have little unique value, consume a lot of crawl time and contain hundreds of 301 links
Disallow: /forum/profile/

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-Delay: 1

# Sitemap URL
Sitemap: https://www.neowin.net/news/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.neowin.net/forum/sitemap.php