# AromaAir - static robots.txt (2026-08-19)
# Served directly by Apache. Previously robots.txt booted all of WordPress.

# --- AI / bulk scrapers: 6,215 YouBot + 13,741 headless-Chrome hits in 26h ---
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AdsBot
Disallow: /

# --- Everyone else (Googlebot, Bingbot and real users are unaffected) ---
User-agent: *
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /?rest_route=
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?*add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?wc-ajax=
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /*?orderby=
Disallow: /*?filter_
Disallow: /*?min_price=
Disallow: /*?add_to_wishlist=
Disallow: /*?add_to_compare=
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/

Sitemap: https://www.aromaair.com/sitemap_index.xml