# ============================================ # Default rules for all bots # ============================================ User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Disallow: /wp-content/cache/ Disallow: /readme.html Disallow: /license.txt Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: /?s= Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /*?replytocom= Disallow: /*?share= Crawl-delay: 10 # ============================================ # Search engine crawlers # ============================================ User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Crawl-delay: 15 User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 20 User-agent: Yandex Crawl-delay: 15 # ============================================ # OpenAI crawlers - slowed down significantly # ============================================ User-agent: GPTBot Crawl-delay: 60 User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Crawl-delay: 30 User-agent: ChatGPT-User Crawl-delay: 30 # ============================================ # Anthropic (Claude) crawlers # ============================================ User-agent: ClaudeBot Crawl-delay: 60 User-agent: anthropic-ai Crawl-delay: 60 User-agent: Claude-Web Crawl-delay: 30 # ============================================ # Other major AI crawlers - slowed down # ============================================ User-agent: Google-Extended Crawl-delay: 30 User-agent: Applebot-Extended Crawl-delay: 30 User-agent: PerplexityBot Crawl-delay: 30 User-agent: Amazonbot Crawl-delay: 30 User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Crawl-delay: 60 User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher Crawl-delay: 30 User-agent: cohere-ai Crawl-delay: 60 User-agent: CCBot Crawl-delay: 60 # ============================================ # Aggressive AI crawlers - blocked (poor reputation) # ============================================ User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / # ============================================ # SEO/scraper bots - blocked (no value to you) # ============================================ User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: DotBot Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: MegaIndex Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: DataForSeoBot Disallow: / User-agent: SEOkicks Disallow: / User-agent: SerpstatBot Disallow: / # ============================================ # Sitemaps # ============================================