# Global rules
# -----------------
User-agent: *

Allow: /
Allow: /blog/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /explore/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /discover/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /learn/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /*?ver=*

# Allow essential assets for rendering
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /*.css$

Disallow: /*?s=*
Disallow: /*?p=*
Disallow: /*?page_id=*
Disallow: /*?preview=*
Disallow: /*?replytocom=*
Disallow: /*?share=*
Disallow: /*?rest_route=*
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=*
Disallow: /*?utm_*
Disallow: /*?fbclid=*

Disallow: /app/*
Disallow: /admissions/logo-slider.php
Disallow: /community/*

Disallow: /*/wp-json/*

Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-signup.php

Disallow: /*/wp-admin/
Disallow: /*/wp-includes/
Disallow: /*/wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /*/wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /*/wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /*/wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /*/wp-login.php
Disallow: /*/wp-signup.php

Disallow: /blog/blog/
Disallow: /blog/category/blog/
Disallow: /blog/tag/*
Disallow: /blog/hi/tag/*

Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */1000/
Disallow: */1000
Disallow: /*/?s=*
Disallow: /*/search/*

Disallow: /*/page/*/?s=
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /internationalcoursesonline/thankyouPage/
Disallow: /merit-mony/thankyou/

# AI Crawlers — explicitly allowed for AEO & GEO
# -----------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Gemini
Allow: /

# Sitemap
# -----------------
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/hi/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/learn/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/explore/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/discover/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/hi/post-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/category-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/author-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/page-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap10.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap5.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap4.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap3.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap2.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap1.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap7.xml
Sitemap: https://leverageedu.com/blog/post-sitemap6.xml

# Ban bots that don't benefit us.
# --------------------------------
User-agent: Nuclei
User-agent: WikiDo
User-agent: Riddler
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Zoominfobot
User-agent: Go-http-client
User-agent: Node/simplecrawler
User-agent: CazoodleBot
User-agent: dotbot/1.0
User-agent: Gigabot
User-agent: Barkrowler
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: CriteoBot/0.1
Disallow: /