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# Global Banking & Finance Review
# robots.txt - Optimized for SEO, GEO & AEO
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# ============================================
# AI Search & Generative Engine Crawlers (GEO/AEO)
# ============================================

# OpenAI Crawlers
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic AI Crawlers
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Google AI Crawlers
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI Crawlers
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# X/Twitter AI Crawler
User-agent: GrokBot
Allow: /

# Apple AI Crawlers
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Meta AI Crawler
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

# Microsoft/Bing AI Crawlers
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (used for AI training datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Cohere AI
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# Amazon AI
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# ByteDance/TikTok AI
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# You.com AI Search
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Neeva AI Search
User-agent: NeevaBot
Allow: /

# Brave Search
User-agent: BraveBot
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# Mojeek Search
User-agent: MojeekBot
Allow: /

# Yep Search
User-agent: YepBot
Allow: /

# Additional Emerging AI Crawlers
User-agent: MistralBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Mistral-AI
Allow: /

User-agent: PiBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Inflection-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookExternalHit
Allow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-render
Allow: /

User-agent: 360Spider
Allow: /

User-agent: Sogou web spider
Allow: /

# ============================================
# Traditional Search Engine Crawlers (SEO)
# ============================================

# Google
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Storebot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

# Microsoft/Bing
User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot-media
Allow: /

# Yahoo
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

# Yandex
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexNews
Allow: /

# Baidu
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Allow: /

# Sogou
User-agent: Sogou
Allow: /

# Naver (Korean search)
User-agent: Yeti
Allow: /

# Seznam (Czech search)
User-agent: SeznamBot
Allow: /

# Qwant (EU search)
User-agent: Qwantify
Allow: /

# ============================================
# Social Media Crawlers (for rich previews)
# ============================================

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Pinterest
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /

# ============================================
# SEO & Analytics Tools
# ============================================

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Allow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Allow: /

User-agent: rogerbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Allow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Allow: /

User-agent: MauiBot
Allow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Allow: /

User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Sitebulb
Allow: /

User-agent: Lighthouse
Allow: /

User-agent: PageSpeed Insights
Allow: /

# ============================================
# Default Rules for All Other Crawlers
# ============================================

User-agent: *
# Allow rules first (compatibility: some crawlers use first-match; Allow before Disallow for same path)
Allow: /*.xml$
Allow: /
Allow: /_next/static/
Allow: /fonts/
Allow: /images/
Allow: /public/images/
Allow: /_next/image
Allow: /_next/data/
Allow: /html-sitemap/
Allow: /feed/
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Allow: /sitemaps/
Allow: /sitemap-news.xml
Allow: /sitemap-image.xml

# Block only sensitive/private areas
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/draft-mode/
Disallow: /api/auth/
Disallow: /api/revalidate/
Disallow: /api/google-indexing/
Disallow: /api/sendEmail/
Disallow: /api/verify-captcha/

# Block internal API endpoints (not needed for indexing)
Disallow: /api/categories/
Disallow: /api/tags/
Disallow: /api/navigation
Disallow: /api/company

# Block search results pages (thin content, duplicate)
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /search/?

# Block Sanity Studio
Disallow: /studio/

# Block error pages (specific paths under _next/static; broader Allow above applies to rest)
Disallow: /_next/static/chunks/pages/_error
Disallow: /_next/static/chunks/pages/404
Disallow: /_next/static/chunks/pages/500

# Allow everything else (reiterate for clarity after Disallow list)
Allow: /

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# Allow All Images (Local & Proxied CDN)
# ============================================

# Local images directory
Allow: /images/
Allow: /public/images/

# Next.js Image Optimization (proxies Sanity & Cloudflare images)
Allow: /_next/image
Allow: /_next/image?*
Allow: /_next/image*

# All image file extensions
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.jpeg
Allow: /*.gif
Allow: /*.webp
Allow: /*.avif
Allow: /*.svg
Allow: /*.ico
Allow: /*.bmp
Allow: /*.tiff

# Note: External CDN images (cdn.sanity.io, imagedelivery.net) are served
# from their own domains and are not controlled by this robots.txt.
# Those domains allow all crawlers by default.

# ============================================
# Allow Required JSON Files
# ============================================

# Next.js build manifests & static JSON
Allow: /_next/static/*.json
Allow: /_next/data/

# PWA & Browser Config
Allow: /manifest.json
Allow: /browserconfig.xml
Allow: /site.webmanifest

# RSS/Atom/JSON Feeds
Allow: /feed/
Allow: /*.rss
Allow: /*.atom
Allow: /rss.xml
Allow: /atom.xml
Allow: /feed.json

# Structured Data & Schema
Allow: /schema.json
Allow: /*.jsonld

# ads.txt for advertising
Allow: /ads.txt

# LLMs.txt for AI crawlers
Allow: /llms.txt

# ============================================
# Allow All Sitemaps (XML & HTML) - Max indexing
# ============================================

# XML Sitemap Index
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Allow: /sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml

# Static Sitemap Directory
Allow: /sitemaps/
Allow: /sitemaps/*

# Static Sitemaps (explicit for crawlers that use Allow for crawl budget)
Allow: /sitemaps/sitemap-static.xml
Allow: /sitemaps/sitemap-categories.xml
Allow: /sitemaps/sitemap-tags.xml
Allow: /sitemaps/sitemap-authors.xml
Allow: /sitemaps/sitemap-posts-

# News Sitemaps
Allow: /sitemap-news.xml
Allow: /sitemap-news/
Allow: /sitemap-news/*

# Image Sitemaps
Allow: /sitemap-image.xml
Allow: /sitemap-image/
Allow: /sitemap-image/*

# Paginated Post Sitemaps (legacy path if used)
Allow: /sitemap/
Allow: /sitemap/*

# HTML Sitemaps (for users and SEO discovery)
Allow: /html-sitemap/
Allow: /html-sitemap/*

# ============================================
# Sitemaps Declaration (2026 Best Practice)
# ============================================
# Per 2026 guidelines: Use ONE main sitemap index that references all sub-sitemaps.
# Multiple Sitemap lines below provide redundancy for crawlers (Google allows multiple).
# The main sitemap.xml contains references to all static and dynamic sitemaps.

Sitemap: https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/sitemap-news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/sitemap-image.xml
Sitemap: https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/sitemaps/sitemap-static.xml

# ============================================
# LLMs.txt (AI-readable site information)
# ============================================
# For AI assistants and LLMs to understand site structure
# See: https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/llms.txt