Sitemap: https://arstechnica.com/sitemap.xml

# Google Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Google AdSense
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Webzio
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
User-agent: heritrix
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /
Allow: /feed/amazon-rss

# Global
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp/wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp/wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp/wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/mu_plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: */comments/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: */*comments=
Disallow: */*comments-page=
Disallow: /services/*
Disallow: /com.condenast/yv8*

# Xenforo
Disallow: /civis/account/
Disallow: /civis/members/
Disallow: /civis/attachments/
Disallow: /civis/goto/
Disallow: /civis/help/
Disallow: /civis/posts/
Disallow: /civis/login/
Disallow: /civis/search/
Disallow: /civis/admin.php
Disallow: /civis/threads/*in_iframe=1*
Disallow: /civis/threads/*wp_data=*
Disallow: */toggle-*.json?