# Global settings for all bots
User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Block Aggressive SEO/Backlink Scrapers
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Block AI Crawlers 
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Block Bytedance 
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Allow Major Search Engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

# Set a crawl delay for others to reduce CPU usage
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10