# Los Angeles News.Today - Robots.txt
# Updated: January 2025

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /faq/
Allow: /privacy/
Allow: /terms/

# Crawl-delay for respectful crawling
Crawl-delay: 1

# Specific bot permissions
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

# News-specific bots
User-agent: GoogleBot-News
Allow: /
Allow: /blog/

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

# AI Training bots - Allow with conditions
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /llm.txt
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /llm.txt
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /llm.txt
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /llm.txt
Allow: /

# Block problematic crawlers
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://losangelesnews.today/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://losangelesnews.today/sitemap-blog.xml

# RSS Feed
# RSS: https://losangelesnews.today/rss.xml

# Host
Host: https://losangelesnews.today