# robots.txt — swrecovery.com
# Last updated: 2026-06-01
# Policy: Allow all legitimate search, social preview, AND AI crawlers
#          (search + training) per 2026-06-01 directive. Block only pure-spam
#          SEO scrapers. All Meta/Facebook bots explicitly allowed.

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# DEFAULT — allow all crawlers not listed below
# -------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/fx-child/admin/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/mu-plugins/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /?post_type=popup
Disallow: /?post_type=popup_theme
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /author/*/feed/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /contact/thank-you/
Disallow: /resources/blog/photo-video-gallery/

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# SEARCH ENGINES — explicitly allowed (belt-and-suspenders)
# -------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

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# SEO TOOLS — allowed (site uses Ahrefs)
# -------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Allow: /

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# SOCIAL MEDIA PREVIEW BOTS — all allowed
# (blocking any of these breaks link previews on that platform)
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User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Facebot
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Pinterestbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
Allow: /

User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

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# AI BROWSING BOTS — allowed (user-directed, can drive leads/citations)
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User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-Index
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /

# -------------------------------------------------------
# AI CRAWLERS — ALLOWED (policy change 2026-06-01)
# Full access for AI search AND training bots: AI-search visibility
# outweighs training concerns (Bryson directive). GPTBot, ClaudeBot,
# CCBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot,
# Applebot-Extended, cohere, Ai2Bot, FirecrawlAgent, et al. now fall
# under 'User-agent: *  Allow: /' above.
# NOTE: Cloudflare edge 'Block AI bots' must ALSO be OFF for this to take effect.
# -------------------------------------------------------

# -------------------------------------------------------
# BLOCKED — pure spam / low-value SEO scrapers only (NOT AI)
# -------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /

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# SITEMAP
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Sitemap: https://www.swrecovery.com/sitemap_index.xml