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# Food Institute - Robots.txt
# Updated: 2026-01-11

# Allow major search engines (Google, Bing) full access
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# AI Training Bots - Follow same rules as llms.txt
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/ewww/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/ewww-3/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /ewww/
Disallow: /ewww-3/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /.well-known/
Disallow: /securefile/
Disallow: /.sucuriquarantine/
Disallow: /reports/2020/
Disallow: /reports/2021/
Disallow: /reports/2022/
Disallow: /reports/2023/
Disallow: /reports/eco/
Disallow: /reports/fir/
Disallow: /reports/du_pdf/
Disallow: /reports/join/
Disallow: /reports/mcith/
Disallow: /food1/
Disallow: /test-site/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /page/

# Commercial SEO Bots - Block entirely (also in .htaccess)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: SERankingBot
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: SEOkicks
User-agent: Barkrowler
User-agent: Netvibes
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# Known Rule-Breakers - Block entirely (also in .htaccess)
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

# Sitemap location (optional - WordPress generates this)
Sitemap: https://foodinstitute.com/sitemap.xml

# Food Institute
# Leading food industry news and analysis platform
# https://foodinstitute.com

# Key Resources for AI Indexing
## [Latest News & Articles](https://foodinstitute.com/)
- Breaking food industry news, market analysis, and trends
## [Industry Reports](https://foodinstitute.com/reports/)
- Comprehensive market intelligence and research
## [Daily Updates](https://foodinstitute.com/reports/dailyupdate/)
- Daily food industry briefings and market insights
## [About Us](https://foodinstitute.com/about/)
- Learn about Food Institute's mission and services

# Company Information
- Company: Food Institute
- Focus: Food industry news, analysis, and market intelligence
- Content: Industry reports, daily briefings, market trends

# AI Crawling Policy - OPTIMIZED FOR BANDWIDTH

User-agent: *

# WordPress Core - BLOCK (No value for AI, wastes bandwidth)
Disallow: /wp-admin/              # WordPress admin
Disallow: /wp-includes/           # WordPress core files
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/    # Plugin files
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/     # Theme files
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/ewww/    # Image optimization cache
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/ewww-3/  # Image optimization cache
Disallow: /wp-json/               # REST API endpoints

# Image Optimization Caches - BLOCK
Disallow: /ewww/                  # EWWW cache directory
Disallow: /ewww-3/                # EWWW cache directory (duplicate)

# Security & System - BLOCK
Disallow: /cgi-bin/               # CGI scripts
Disallow: /.well-known/           # SSL validation files
Disallow: /securefile/            # Security files
Disallow: /.sucuriquarantine/     # Sucuri quarantine

# Archive Optimization - BLOCK OLD CONTENT
Disallow: /reports/2020/          # Outdated reports (5+ years old)
Disallow: /reports/2021/          # Outdated reports (4+ years old)
Disallow: /reports/2022/          # Outdated reports (3+ years old)
Disallow: /reports/2023/          # Older reports (2+ years old)

# Test/Cache Directories - BLOCK
Disallow: /reports/eco/           # Old/test content
Disallow: /reports/fir/           # Old/test content
Disallow: /reports/du_pdf/        # PDF cache directory
Disallow: /reports/join/          # Join/signup forms
Disallow: /reports/mcith/         # MCITH content
Disallow: /test-site/		  # test site

# Subdomain - BLOCK (staging/test sites)
Disallow: /food1/                 # food1-co subdomain files
Disallow: /test-site/             # test site

# Functional Pages - BLOCK (No content value)
Disallow: /feed/                  # RSS feeds
Disallow: /trackback/             # Trackback endpoints
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php             # XML-RPC
Disallow: /*?                     # URLs with query parameters (search, etc)
Disallow: /*.php                  # PHP files
Disallow: /*.js                   # JavaScript files
Disallow: /*.css                  # Stylesheets
Disallow: /*.inc                  # Include files

# User-Generated/Dynamic Content - BLOCK
Disallow: /comments/              # Comment pages
Disallow: /author/                # Author archives
Disallow: /tag/                   # Tag pages
Disallow: /page/                  # Pagination

# Everything else is allowed (homepage, /about/, /reports/2024/, /reports/2025/, etc.)

# Training Guidelines
Training-Data: allowed
Commercial-Use: allowed-with-attribution
Attribution: required
Modification: allowed
Distribution: allowed-with-source-link
Data-Collection-Consent: implicit

# Explanation
We allow AI training on our current news articles and industry reports (2024-2025) to 
help spread food industry knowledge. Older archives and WordPress system files are 
excluded to reduce unnecessary bandwidth consumption.

# Metadata
Crawl-delay: 2
Categories: food-industry, news, market-intelligence, reports, analysis
Last-modified: 2026-01-11
Version: 1.0
Content-Focus: food-industry-news, market-analysis, daily-updates

# Custom Directives
Research: encouraged
Educational-use: encouraged
Commercial-training: allowed-with-attribution
User-generated-content: excluded
System-files: excluded
Archive-content: exclude-before-2024

# Preferred Indexing
Priority-content: /reports/dailyupdate/, /reports/2024/, /reports/2025/, /reports/marketinfo/
Update-frequency: daily