# ========================================
# Africa.com - robots.txt
# News & Media Publisher
# Hardened for security + SEO + AI search
# Rules strictly limit access to Google, AI, and Social Bots
# ========================================

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# 1. GOOGLE SEARCH & GOOGLE AI
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Allow: /feed/
Allow: /*/feed/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
# WordPress system paths blocked for Google
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/backup-db/
Disallow: /wp-content/backups/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wp-import-export-lite/
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /wp-config-sample.php
# Search & duplicate content blocked for Google
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?*replytocom=
Disallow: /*?*share=
Disallow: /*?*print=
Disallow: /*?*amp
# Trackbacks and comment feeds blocked for Google
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*/trackback/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
# Attachment & author archive pages blocked for Google
Disallow: /*/attachment/*
Disallow: /author/

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
Allow: /feed/
Allow: /*/feed/

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Allow: /feed/
Allow: /*/feed/

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# 2. AI SEARCH & DISCOVERY BOTS
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User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

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# 3. SOCIAL MEDIA BOT PREVIEWS (Prevents Blank Links)
# ----------------------------------------
User-agent: facebot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

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# 4. DEFAULT BLOCK - All other bots blocked
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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# SITEMAPS
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