Robots.txt for The Events Calendar

robots.txt

The Events Calendar can drive up huge amoounts of CPU by generating tons of worthless URLs that bots try to call. 
Following is a robots.txt file that can combat these excessive server hits from Google and Facebook bots.
Note, this also blocks The Events Calendar Categories which you may or may not want to do.

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 3

Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /tag
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: ?replytocom*
Disallow: */comments-page-*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments

 
## For Events Calendar
Disallow: *post_type=tribe_events*
Disallow: *hide_subsequent_recurrences=*
Disallow: *tribe-bar-date=*
Disallow: *tribe-venue=*
Disallow: *eventDisplay=*
Disallow: *eventDate=*
Disallow: *paged=*
Disallow: *pagename=*
Disallow: *shortcode=*
Disallow: *ical=*
Disallow: *outlook-ical=*
Disallow: *related_series=*
Disallow: *tribe_geofence=*
Disallow: *tribe_organizer=*
Disallow: /events/tag/
Disallow: /events/list/
Disallow: /events/category/