# Robots.txt for Scored News - Financial Intelligence Platform
# Updated: 2025-11-13
# Purpose: Guide search engines and AI crawlers for optimal indexing

# Default rules for all bots
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Priority crawling for main content sections
Allow: /deep-dives/
Allow: /sentiment-trends/
Allow: /premium-dashboard/
Allow: /monetization/
Allow: /api/social-image/

# Block admin, private areas, and technical endpoints
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: *.json$
Disallow: /auth/

# Allow specific API endpoints for social previews
Allow: /api/social-image/
Allow: /api/og-image/

# Sitemaps - Multiple sitemap indices for comprehensive coverage
Sitemap: https://scorednews.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://scorednews.com/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://scorednews.com/sitemap-images.xml
Sitemap: https://scorednews.com/sitemap-news.xml

# Default crawl-delay for respectful crawling
Crawl-delay: 1

# ============================================
# MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES
# ============================================

# Google - Highest priority, no delay
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

# Bing - Standard crawling
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0.5

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

# Yahoo/Verizon Media
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# DuckDuckGo
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Baidu
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# ============================================
# AI & LLM CRAWLERS - Enable for AI training
# ============================================

# OpenAI (ChatGPT)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Google AI (Bard/Gemini)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Bing AI/Copilot
User-agent: BingAI
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Amazon Alexa
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

# Common Crawl
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ============================================
# SOCIAL MEDIA CRAWLERS
# ============================================

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

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

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

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

# ============================================
# NEWS & AGGREGATORS
# ============================================

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Feedfetcher-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

# Apple News
User-agent: AppleNewsBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# ============================================
# SPECIALIZED CRAWLERS
# ============================================

# Archive.org
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

# SEMrush
User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Ahrefs
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Moz
User-agent: rogerbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Screaming Frog
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Allow: /

# ============================================
# BLOCK PROBLEMATIC BOTS
# ============================================

# Block content scrapers
User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebReaper
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

# Block spam bots
User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailSiphon
Disallow: /

User-agent: EmailWolf
Disallow: /