# Scientico India — robots.txt
# Updated 2026-06-25 for indexation hygiene + Brave/independent search optimization.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# WooCommerce hygiene
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?*add-to-cart=

# Query param bloat
Disallow: /*?orderby=
Disallow: /*?filter_
Disallow: /*?attribute_
Disallow: /*?min_price=
Disallow: /*?max_price=
Disallow: /*?rating_filter=
Disallow: /*?attachment_id=
Disallow: /*?p=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*?lang=
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=

# Endpoints
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /?rest_route=

# Thin archives
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /product-tag/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/

# Explicitly welcome modern + independent crawlers (AI & privacy-first search)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Brave Search (independent index — replaces Bing fallback in 2026+)
User-agent: BraveBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Brave-bot
Allow: /

# Other independent search engines
User-agent: MojeekBot
Allow: /

User-agent: KagiBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: AndiBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://scienticoindia.com/sitemap_index.xml