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# ROBOTS.TXT - GROUP BUILDER FORUMS
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# --------------------------------------------
# SEARCH ENGINES - FULL ACCESS
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: Googlebot
Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 2
Allow: /

# --------------------------------------------
# SOCIAL MEDIA - ALLOW (for link previews)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

# --------------------------------------------
# AI CRAWLERS - THROTTLED (hedge your bets)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Crawl-delay: 30
Allow: /

# --------------------------------------------
# AI TRAINING BOTS - BLOCK (no benefit to you)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

# --------------------------------------------
# CONTENT SCRAPERS - BLOCK
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

# --------------------------------------------
# DEFAULT - ALLOW WITH CRAWL DELAY
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5
Allow: /

# --------------------------------------------
# XENFORO - BLOCK NON-CONTENT PATHS (all bots)
# --------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /admin.php
Disallow: /find-new/
Disallow: /goto/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /lost-password/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /whats-new/
Disallow: /posts/*/bookmark$
Disallow: /posts/*/react
Disallow: /conversations/
Disallow: /*?order=
Disallow: /*?direction=
Disallow: /*&order=
Disallow: /*&direction=

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# SITEMAP
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Sitemap: /sitemap.xml