# AI Crawlers - Explicitly Allowed
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Block low-quality scrapers
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# Google crawlers (Merchant Center free listings + Shopping ads) — must reach ?wmc-currency= feed landing pages (added 2026-07-18)
# Google reads only its own group and ignores "User-agent: *", so the other Disallows are repeated here; only wmc-currency is deliberately left open.
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?*add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?wc-ajax=
Disallow: /*?*wc-ajax=
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?*add-to-cart=
# Cache-bypassing / no-SEO-value query URLs (added 2026-07-16 after bot-swarm OOM incident)
# wc-ajax = WooCommerce cart fragments (AJAX, never indexed); wmc-currency = Multi Currency variants (duplicate content)
Disallow: /*?wc-ajax=
Disallow: /*?*wc-ajax=
Disallow: /*?wmc-currency=
Disallow: /*?*wmc-currency=
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
# Throttle bots that honor Crawl-delay (Bing/Yandex/etc.); Google ignores this and is managed in Search Console
Crawl-delay: 10

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