b76bc0ef2593943ea828881d1295395df56b1346
lrnassar
  Wed Nov 5 15:55:56 2025 -0800
Adding a special section just for googlebot so it stops indexing our hgsid URLs as well ans hgRenderTracks. Refs #36175

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/robots.rr.txt src/hg/htdocs/robots.rr.txt
index 65da195e458..0c538d5e860 100644
--- src/hg/htdocs/robots.rr.txt
+++ src/hg/htdocs/robots.rr.txt
@@ -15,22 +15,32 @@
 User-agent: ImagesiftBot
 User-agent: magpie-crawler
 User-agent: Meltwater
 User-agent: omgili
 User-agent: omgilibot
 User-agent: peer39_crawler
 User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
 User-agent: PerplexityBot
 User-agent: PiplBot
 User-agent: scoop.it
 User-agent: Seekr
 User-agent: YandexBot
 User-agent: YouBot
 Disallow: /
 
+User-agent: Googlebot
+Disallow: /admin/stats/
+Disallow: /goldenPath/certificate.html
+Disallow: /goldenPath/certificates/
+Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgTracks*.customText*.
+Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgBlat*output=json*
+Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgGeneGraph*
+Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgRenderTracks*
+Disallow: /cgi-bin/*hgsid*
+
 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /admin/stats/
 Disallow: /goldenPath/certificate.html
 Disallow: /goldenPath/certificates/
 Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgTracks*.customText*.
 Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgBlat*output=json*
 Disallow: /cgi-bin/hgGeneGraph*