# Block low-value scraper bots (save bandwidth)
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Block utility pages from indexing
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?query=

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