# Googlebot - explicit rules for Merchant Center
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-image
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /ref/

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User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /ref/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */page/*?
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /*?sscid=
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /tag/
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/searchbot
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# OPENAI
# Search
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# Mistral AI
User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# User-driven browsing from ChatGPT and Custom GPTs. Acts after a human click.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User/2.0
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# Model-training crawler. Opt-out here if I don’t want content in GPT-4o or GPT-5.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/                
                            
# ANTHROPIC (Claude)
User-agent: anthropic-ai            
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
User-agent: ClaudeBot               
User-agent: claude-web              
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
#  PERPLEXITY 
# index builder
User-agent: PerplexityBot     
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# human-triggered visit
User-agent: Perplexity-User   
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# GOOGLE (Gemini)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
#  AMAZON
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
#  APPLE 
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# META
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
#  LINKEDIN 
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
# BYTEDANCE 
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
#  DUCKDUCKGO
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Sitemap: https://tefl.ie/sitemap_index.xml
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# END YOAST BLOCK