# robots.txt

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*?replytocom
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /wp-login.php

# =======================================================
# AI BOT CONFIGURATION
# =======================================================

# 1. ALLOW: Live Search & User-Initiated Bots
# Allows AI to cite, summarize links, and return articles in real-time search
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# 2. BLOCK: Mass AI Training & Scrapers
# Protects site content from being taken for general LLM model training
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

# =======================================================
# SEO TOOLS & BOT DELAYS
# =======================================================

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 20

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 20

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Crawl-delay: 20

# Search Engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10