# 1. Explicitly welcome Search Engines and AI Crawlers 
# (Grouping them here forces them ALL to obey the Disallow rules below)
User-agent: *
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot

# 2. Allow Media Uploads (Required for Google Images)
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

# 3. Block technical and admin areas
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# 4. Block checkout/account pages (Keep private)
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /order-confirmation/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /thankyou/

# 5. Block Search results (Prevents duplicate content issues)
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?filter*
Disallow: /*?sort*

# 6. Specific SEO Team Requests (Duplicate pages)
Disallow: /homepage/
Disallow: /project/

# 7. Block Specific PDF Brochures
# (Blocking these forces users to visit the web page to download, which captures leads)
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2024/07/redeeming-your-ecl-voucher-code.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2024/07/redeeming-your-ecl-pro-voucher-code.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CEHV13-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CEH-Master-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CEH-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2024/09/EC-CEHv13-Course-Brochure-2.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EHE-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CHFI-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CCT-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CPENT-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CND-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ECIH-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CTIA-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/network-defense-essentials-nde-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CCISO-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EDRP-BrochureV1.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SOC-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CSCU-Brochure-1.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CASE-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ECSSv9-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ICS-SCADA-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ECDE-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CCSE-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DevSecOps-Essentials-brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Cloud-Security-Essentials-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ECESv2-Brochure-2022.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/TIE-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IOT-Brochure.pdf
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/2025/01/digital-forensics-essentials-dfe-brochure.pdf

# 8. Sitemap Location
Sitemap: https://www.eccouncil.org/sitemap.xml