User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json
Sitemap: https://theaugustapress.com/sitemap_index.xml


# ==========================================
# AI / LLM training & answer engines (BLOCK)
# ==========================================
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /


# ==========================================
# SEO intelligence & competitive crawlers
# ==========================================
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeobilityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /


# ==========================================
# Archivers, downloaders & scrapers
# ==========================================
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSucker
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: curl
Disallow: /


# ==========================================
# China-based search & scraping bots (BLOCK)
# ==========================================
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /


# ==========================================
# ALLOWED: Major search engines
# ==========================================
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /