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# robots.txt — files-forge.com
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# Block known aggressive SEO crawlers that consume bandwidth
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ByteSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytedance
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# Allow legitimate search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /work/
Disallow: /converted/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /work/
Disallow: /converted/

# Default rule for everyone else
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /work/
Disallow: /converted/
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*.log$

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