# General crawlers User-agent: * Disallow: Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: * Allow: / # Aggressive AI/SEO bots - slow them down significantly User-agent: BLEXBot Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: ChatGPT-User Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: GPTBot Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: ClaudeBot Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: Amazonbot Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: anthropic-ai Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: cohere-ai Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: PerplexityBot Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: Omgilibot Crawl-delay: 10 # SEO/Rank tracking bots (moderate slow down) User-agent: SemrushBot Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: AhrefsBot Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: DotBot Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: serpstatbot Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: BLP_bbot Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: DataForSeoBot Crawl-delay: 5 # Allow major search engines normal access User-agent: Googlebot Crawl-delay: 1 User-agent: Bingbot Crawl-delay: 2 User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 2 User-agent: DuckDuckBot Crawl-delay: 2 User-agent: Baiduspider Crawl-delay: 2 # Facebook/Social crawlers - normal rate User-agent: facebookexternalhit Crawl-delay: 1 User-agent: Twitterbot Crawl-delay: 1 # Disallow problematic paths for all bots Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /wp-login.php Disallow: /wp-json/ Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Disallow: /wp-content/cache/ Disallow: /*?s= Disallow: /*?p= Disallow: /*?replytocom Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /author/