# ================================================================
# GITEX AI Asia — robots.txt
# Event  : GITEX AI Asia | 9–10 April 2026
# Venue  : Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
# By     : KERVAN SEO AGENCY | 2026-03-10
#
# Companion files:
#   Sitemap     : https://gitexasia.com/sitemap.xml
#   AI Sitemap  : https://gitexasia.com/ai-sitemap.json
#   LLMs        : https://gitexasia.com/llms.txt
#   LLMs Full   : https://gitexasia.com/llms-full.txt
# ================================================================

# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# 1. GLOBAL RULES — all well-behaved crawlers
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /uploads/posts/

# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# 2. AI LANGUAGE MODEL CRAWLERS — all allowed
#    gitexasia.com permits indexing, RAG retrieval and training use.
#    Full permissions: https://gitexasia.com/llms.txt
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# 3. SPAM / SCRAPER BOTS — blocked
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Linguee Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytedance
Disallow: /

# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# 4. SITEMAPS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
Sitemap: https://gitexasia.com/sitemap.xml