# Optimum Web — robots.txt
# https://www.optimum-web.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Google Search
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

# Bing Search
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# AI Bots — ALLOW (important for AEO / AI search visibility)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Block aggressive crawlers with low value
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Block junk/legacy WordPress URLs (site is React SPA — these paths don't exist)
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /product-tag/
Disallow: /product-category/
Disallow: /shop/
Disallow: /?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /trackback/

# Block UTM/tracking parameter URLs to prevent canonical variants in GSC
Disallow: /*?utm_source=
Disallow: /*?utm_medium=
Disallow: /*?utm_campaign=
Disallow: /*?utm_content=
Disallow: /*?utm_term=
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=
Disallow: /*?msclkid=
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?source=

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.optimum-web.com/sitemap.xml