# Meta/Facebook bot throttling (2026-03-24)
User-agent: meta-webindexer
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Crawl-delay: 3

# Block AI training crawlers (no return traffic, pure scraping)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.a2zwordfinder.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.a2zwordfinder.com/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml

User-agent: *

Allow: /
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/
Disallow: /cdn-fpw/sxg/

# Disallow sensitive and unnecessary areas
Disallow: /banners/
Disallow: /pro/
Disallow: /membersOnly/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /*.log$
Disallow: /*.tmp$
Disallow: /backup/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /.htaccess
Disallow: /server-status
Disallow: /server-info

# Disallow crawling of development and utility files
Disallow: /*.bak$
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /dev-tools/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /testing/

# Allow popular search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 20

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 20

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# SEO tool crawlers — rate-limited (heavy scrapers, low reciprocal value)
User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 30

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# Applebot bumped 10→30 on 2026-04-11 — #1 503 offender after 4-lang sitemap expansion
User-agent: Applebot
Crawl-delay: 30

# Perplexity AI search — rate-limited after 4-lang sitemap expansion 2026-04-11
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Crawl-delay: 20

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Crawl-delay: 20

# Block all crawlers from aMember membership system
Disallow: /amember/
Disallow: /amember/admin/
Disallow: /amember/login
Disallow: /amember/signup
Disallow: /amember/member
Disallow: /amember/aff/