# LocalNewsAndEvents.com crawler policy
# Canonical public content is listed in the XML sitemap index.
# AI-oriented site guidance is available at /llms.txt.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /wp-comments-post.php
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*/trackback/

# Search and answer-engine crawlers may use canonical public pages.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /results/

Sitemap: https://localnewsandevents.com/wp-sitemap.xml