# Allow legitimate search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Block aggressive/known bad bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow: /

# AI crawlers (optional - block if causing high load)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# Default rule for other bots
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 5

# Block API routes from indexing
User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/

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