# Block known resource-heavy and AI data-scraping bots
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex.ru
Disallow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ByteSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

# Block generic scrapers and request libraries
User-agent: python-requests
Disallow: /

User-agent: curl
Disallow: /

User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /

User-agent: Java
Disallow: /

User-agent: Go-http-client
Disallow: /

# Default restrictions for all other crawlers
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?s=*
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Help crawlers locate your sitemap
Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml