# General Rules for all Search Engines and Crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-includes/js/
Allow: /wp-includes/images/

# Major Search Engine Crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Yeti
Allow: /

# Social Media & Discovery Crawlers (Generates rich embeds when links are shared)
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Allow: /
User-agent: facebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /

# Optimize for Image & Video Search (Crucial for visual and video content)
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /
User-agent: bingbot-media
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

# Explicitly Allow AI Web Scrapers and Bots
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /

# Link to your Sitemap
Sitemap: https://anitroves.com/sitemap.xml