User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
# =========================
# 1. Custom Rules for Specific Bots
# =========================
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/*/feed/
Disallow: /category/*/feed/
Disallow: /feed/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Bing (Respects Crawl-delay)
User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/*/feed/
Disallow: /category/*/feed/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /feed/whiz/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Heavy SEO Crawlers (Slowed down significantly)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 20
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/*/feed/
Disallow: /category/*/feed/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /feed/whiz/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# =========================
# 2. Fully Blocked Bots (AI & Scrapers)
# =========================

User-agent: 8LEGS
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: BLP_bbot
User-agent: MauiBot
User-agent: SeekrBot
User-agent: Colly
User-agent: Collybot
User-agent: Nimbostratus-Bot
User-agent: Neevabot
User-agent: zoomnewsbot
User-agent: AspiegelBot
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: AudigentAdBot
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: Jetslide
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
User-agent: news-please
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: peer39_crawler
User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
User-agent: quillbot.com
User-agent: Quora-Bot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: ViennaTinyBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

# =========================
# 3. Default Rules (Google, DDG, and everyone else)
# =========================

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/*/feed/
Disallow: /category/*/feed/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /feed/whiz/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# =========================
# 4. Sitemaps
# =========================

Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap-root.xml
Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap-posttype-page.xml
Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap-author.xml
Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap-news.xml

# XML Sitemap & Google News version 5.4.9 - https://status301.net/wordpress-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/
Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.postindependent.com/sitemap-news.xml