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# IndustrialToolCrib.com robots.txt (AI-limited + SEO optimized)
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# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.industrialtoolcrib.com/sitemap/sitemap_itc_index.xml

# Default Disallow Rules (Applies To All Bots)
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /*?dir=
Disallow: /*?order=
Disallow: /*?p=
Disallow: /*?q=


# Explicitly Allow Main Content (Applies To All Bots)
Allow: /product/
Allow: /category/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /resources/
Allow: /sitemap/

# Explicitly Allow Main Product Categories (Applies To All Bots)
Allow: /abrasives/
Allow: /cutting-tools/
Allow: /tools-and-equipment/
Allow: /machinery/
Allow: /safety-equipment/
Allow: /welding-equipment/
Allow: /more-industrial-products/
Allow: /brands/

# LLM / AI Crawler Restrictions
User-agent: GPTBot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: CCBot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: Amazonbot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: Google-Extended
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Crawl-delay: 10
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Crawl-delay: 10


#Googlebot Specifics
User-agent: Googlebot
Crawl-delay: 10
# Denies Googlebot access to disallowed urls
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customer/account/
Disallow: /customer/address/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /search/

#Googlebot-Image Specifics
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Crawl-delay: 10
# Denies Googlebot-Image access to disallowed urls
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customer/account/
Disallow: /customer/address/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /search/

#BingPreview Specifics
User-agent: BingPreview
Crawl-delay: 10
# Denies BingPreview access to disallowed urls
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customer/account/
Disallow: /customer/address/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /search/

#BingBot Specifics
User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 10
# Denies BingPreview access to disallowed urls
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customer/account/
Disallow: /customer/address/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /search/


#Valid Other search engine settings, delay 1 second between requests please.
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
# Denies all other search engine's access to disallowed urls
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customer/account/
Disallow: /customer/address/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /search/

# Begin block Bad-Robots from robots.txt
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: asterias
Disallow:/
User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: Black Hole
Disallow:/
User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: BotALot
Disallow:/
User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow:/
User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: BunnySlippers
Disallow:/
User-agent: Cegbfeieh
Disallow:/
User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow:/
User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow:/
User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: CopyRightCheck
Disallow:/
User-agent: cosmos
Disallow:/
User-agent: Crescent
Disallow:/
User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DittoSpyder
Disallow:/
User-agent: DomesticSale/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: EmailCollector
Disallow:/
User-agent: EmailSiphon
Disallow:/
User-agent: EmailWolf
Disallow:/
User-agent: EroCrawler
Disallow:/
User-agent: ExtractorPro
Disallow:/
User-agent: Foobot
Disallow:/
User-agent: G-i-g-a-b-o-t
Disallow:/
User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow:/
User-agent: hloader
Disallow:/
User-agent: httplib
Disallow:/
User-agent: humanlinks
Disallow:/
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow:/
User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
Disallow:/
User-agent: JennyBot
Disallow:/
User-agent: Kenjin Spider
Disallow:/
User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
Disallow:/
User-agent: LexiBot
Disallow:/
User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP
Disallow:/
User-agent: LinkextractorPro
Disallow:/
User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
Disallow:/
User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow:/
User-agent: LNSpiderguy
Disallow:/
User-agent: lwp-trivial
Disallow:/
User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mata Hari
Disallow:/
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 5.01.4511
Disallow:/
User-agent: Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169
Disallow:/
User-agent: MIIxpc
Disallow:/
User-agent: MIIxpc/4.2
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mister PiX
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
Disallow:/
User-agent: moget
Disallow:/
User-agent: moget/2.1
Disallow:/
User-agent: mozilla/4
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; BullsEye; Windows 95)
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 95)
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 98)
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT)
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows XP)
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows 2000)
Disallow:/
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows ME)
Disallow:/
User-agent: mozilla/5
Disallow:/
User-agent: NetAnts
Disallow:/
User-agent: NICErsPRO
Disallow:/
User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow:/
User-Agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-Agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: Openfind
Disallow:/
User-agent: Openfind data gathere
Disallow:/
User-agent: Photon/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: PopScreen Bot
Disallow:/
User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
Disallow:/
User-agent: ProWebWalker
Disallow:/
User-agent: QueryN Metasearch
Disallow:/
User-agent: RepoMonkey
Disallow:/
User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
Disallow:/
User-agent: RMA
Disallow:/
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeznamBot/3.2
Disallow:/
User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow:/
User-agent: SpankBot
Disallow:/
User-agent: spanner
Disallow:/
User-agent: suzuran
Disallow:/
User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
Disallow:/
User-agent: Teleport
Disallow:/
User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow:/
User-agent: Telesoft
Disallow:/
User-agent: The Intraformant
Disallow:/
User-agent: TheNomad
Disallow:/
User-agent: TightTwatBot
Disallow:/
User-agent: TinEye-bot/1.31
Disallow:/
User-agent: Titan
Disallow:/
User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher
Disallow:/
User-agent: True_Robot
Disallow:/
User-agent: True_Robot/1.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: turingos
Disallow:/
User-agent: URLy Warning
Disallow:/
User-agent: VCI
Disallow:/
User-agent: VCI WebViewer VCI WebViewer Win32
Disallow:/
User-agent: Web Image Collector
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebAuto
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebBandit
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebBandit/3.50
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebEnhancer
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebSauger
Disallow:/
User-agent: Website Quester
Disallow:/
User-agent: Webster Pro
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebZip
Disallow:/
User-agent: WebZip/4.0
Disallow:/
User-agent: Wget
Disallow:/
User-agent: Wget/1.5.3
Disallow:/
User-agent: Wget/1.6
Disallow:/
User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
Disallow:/
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /
User-agent: Zeus
Disallow:/
User-agent: Zeus 32297 Webster Pro V2.9 Win32
Disallow:/
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

# AI / data-use signal (experimental)
# Content-Signal: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=no

Sitemap: https://www.industrialtoolcrib.com/sitemap/sitemap_itc_index.xml