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# Robots.txt for NitroCortex
# https://nitrocortex.com
# Last updated: 2026-01-24
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# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://nitrocortex.com/sitemap.xml

# IndexNow key location
# IndexNow-key: https://nitrocortex.com/b8f4e2a1c9d3f7e6b5a4c8d2e1f9a3b7.txt

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# Default rules for all bots
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /index.html
Allow: /index_fr.html
Allow: /style.css
Allow: /script.js
Allow: /images/
Allow: /site.webmanifest
Allow: /favicon
Allow: /opensearch.xml
Allow: /humans.txt
Allow: /ads.txt
Allow: /app-ads.txt
Allow: /.well-known/

# Block sensitive files and directories
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /node_modules/
Disallow: /*.log$
Disallow: /*.sql$
Disallow: /*.bak$
Disallow: /api.php
Disallow: /analytics.php
Disallow: /stats.html

# Crawl politely
Crawl-delay: 1

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# Google
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /images/
Allow: /*.svg$
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.webp$

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

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# Bing / Microsoft
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User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

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# Other major search engines
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User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

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# Social media bots (for link previews)
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User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Pinterest
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /

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# SEO tools (allow for analysis)
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User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Allow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: MJ12bot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: DotBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

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# Block bad bots and scrapers
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User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AlphaBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

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# Host directive (canonical domain)
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Host: https://nitrocortex.com