# ------------------------------------------------------------------- # GROUP 1: Polite Mainstream Search Engines # Applies a crawl-delay to bots that respect it (like Bing, Yahoo, Yandex). # Note: Googlebot ignores Crawl-delay. Adjust Google via Search Console. # ------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 # Disallow: /checkout/ # ------------------------------------------------------------------- # GROUP 2: AI Scrapers & Data Aggregators # Completely blocks aggressive bots that drain your bandwidth for AI training. # ------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteimproveBot Allow: / # ------------------------------------------------------------------- # SITEMAP LOCATION # Always use the absolute URL with HTTPS to guide good search bots. # ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sitemap: https://www.sunywcc.edu/sitemap/