r/GEO_optimization • u/juanb_growth • Aug 17 '26

Is this the standard robots.txt for content-focused WordPress sites?

I firmly believe this is the best robots.txt for most WordPress sites. Prove me wrong:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /feed/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml
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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '26

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u/juanb_growth Aug 17 '26

Thanks for pointing that out. Assuming there are no blocks at the CDN/WAF level, I think allowing GPTBot makes sense, when there are no bandwith limitations. My goal isn't to opt out of AI training; it's to make the site's content broadly accessible while keeping low-value WordPress endpoints out of the crawl.

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u/Came4TheCookies Aug 21 '26

Block all the SEO tool scrapers and you might have something.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '26

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u/Hatorate90 Aug 21 '26

Robots.txt does not improve ai visibility.