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# robots.txt — storagewise.ie
# Updated: May 2026
# Strategy: Explicitly welcome all major AI crawlers for maximum AI search
#            visibility. Block SEO scrapers and geographically irrelevant bots.
# NOTE: robots.txt is advisory only — it is not a security control. Sensitive
#       paths (wp-admin, account pages) must be protected server-side.
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# ── Major search engines ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# ── AI crawlers — full access for AI search visibility ────────────────────────
# These bots feed ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews,
# Apple Intelligence, and Microsoft Copilot. Explicit Allow: / signals
# that StorageWise welcomes AI indexing.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ── SEO scrapers — block entirely ────────────────────────────────────────────
# These tools harvest data for competitors. No SEO benefit to StorageWise.

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SEOkicks
Disallow: /

# ── Geographically irrelevant / low-value crawlers ───────────────────────────

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: SogouSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

# ── Default — all other bots ──────────────────────────────────────────────────

User-agent: *
# WordPress internals — not useful to index
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
# WooCommerce transactional pages — not useful to index
Disallow: /packing-supplies/basket/
Disallow: /packing-supplies/checkout/
Disallow: /packing-supplies/my-account/
Disallow: /packaging-supplies/my-account/
Disallow: /?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /?wc-ajax=
# WordPress search results (duplicate content)
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?s=
# WordPress system endpoints
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=

# ── Sitemaps ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Sitemap: https://www.storagewise.ie/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.storagewise.ie/sitemap.xml