# Allow major search engines User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Video Allow: / User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / User-agent: Slurp Allow: / User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: / User-agent: Baiduspider Allow: / User-agent: YandexBot Allow: / User-agent: facebot Allow: / User-agent: Twitterbot Allow: / User-agent: LinkedInBot Allow: / User-agent: Applebot Allow: / # Allow major AI bots User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Allow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / # Block everything else by default, but still protect WP paths for known bots User-agent: * Disallow: / Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /private/ # --- SEO / Analytics bots --- User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: DotBot Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: DataForSeoBot Disallow: / # --- AI training scrapers (smaller/unknown) --- User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Omgilibot Disallow: / # --- Scrapers / data harvesters --- User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: SeznamBot Disallow: / User-agent: MegaIndex Disallow: / User-agent: Cliqzbot Disallow: / User-agent: ZoominfoBot Disallow: / User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider Disallow: / User-agent: serpstatbot Disallow: / User-agent: SEOkicks Disallow: / User-agent: linkdexbot Disallow: / User-agent: Exabot Disallow: / User-agent: spbot Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: PocketParser Disallow: / User-agent: OrangeBot Disallow: / User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: PiplBot Disallow: / User-agent: GrapeshotCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: proximic Disallow: / User-agent: SiteAuditBot Disallow: / User-agent: NetcraftSurveyAgent Disallow: / User-agent: Riddler Disallow: / User-agent: wotbox Disallow: / User-agent: meanpathbot Disallow: / User-agent: AddThis Disallow: / User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: /