# robots.txt for gradcalculator.com
# Purpose: Allow Google bots, block bad bots, slow down generic crawlers

# --- Allow Google Bots ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow:
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Disallow:
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow:

# --- Block Common Bad Crawlers ---
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /
User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: spbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

# --- Generic bots (allowed but slowed down) ---
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Crawl-delay: 10


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