# Female Executive Search - robots.txt
# Last updated: May 2026

# Default: allow all well-behaved crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

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# AI crawlers - explicitly allowed
# (Listing each one is belt-and-braces: the wildcard above already
#  allows them, but some teams audit robots.txt looking for their
#  named UA before crawling. Explicit Allow signals intent.)
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

# OpenAI - ChatGPT browsing, search index, and training
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic - Claude
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Google - Gemini and AI Overviews
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Microsoft / Bing - Copilot
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl - widely used as training data
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Mistral / Le Chat
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

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# Sitemaps and llms.txt
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

Sitemap: https://www.female-executive-search.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.female-executive-search.com/sitemap.xml

# llms.txt for LLM-friendly content discovery
# (not a robots.txt directive - included as a comment for human auditors)
# llms.txt: https://www.female-executive-search.com/llms.txt