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# WORDPRESS CORE & SECURITY RULES
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?*

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# ALLOW AI SEARCH & CITATION BOTS (GEO Strategy)
# Allows AI models to search, read, and attribute articles
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User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

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# BLOCK UNATTRIBUTED AI SCRAPERS & AGGRESSIVE TRAINERS
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# Aggressive web scrapers & dataset builders
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: ApifyBot
Disallow: /

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# XML SITEMAPS
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Sitemap: https://headlinerecorder.com/wp-sitemap.xml