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# neoplay.me - robots.txt            last updated 2026-08-28
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# AI / automated crawlers - blocked.
# These crawlers were contributing to origin CPU load, particularly
# when crawling faceted-filter URL combinations.
# Social link-preview bots (facebookexternalhit, Twitterbot, etc.)
# are deliberately NOT listed here, so shared links keep working.

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /


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# Commercial SEO crawlers - blocked for the campaign period.
# Pure origin cost, no ranking benefit. Safe to re-enable later.
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User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /


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# Everyone else, including Googlebot and Bingbot
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User-agent: *

# Transactional / private pages
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /order-confirmation/
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Faceted-filter, sorting and cart parameters.
# Deliberately no "?" before the parameter name so these rules
# also match parameters appearing later in the query string.

Disallow: /*add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*wc-ajax=
Disallow: /*filter_
Disallow: /*query_type_
Disallow: /*cat_type=
Disallow: /*plats=
Disallow: /*tags=
Disallow: /*min_price=
Disallow: /*max_price=
Disallow: /*per_page=
Disallow: /*shop_view=
Disallow: /*orderby=
Disallow: /*product_orderby=
Disallow: /*product_count=
Disallow: /*rating_filter=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*&s=

# Keep media crawlable for Google Images / Shopping
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

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