Sitemap: https://www.stl.news/sitemap_index.xml

Sitemap: https://www.stl.news/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.stl.news/video-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /*/*.css
Allow: /*/*.js
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: */disclaimer/*
Disallow: *?attachment_id=
Disallow: /privacy-policy

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Msnbot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot-media
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Qwantify
Allow: /

# Popular chinese search engines

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider/2.0
Allow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
Allow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Allow: /
User-agent: Sogou spider
Allow: /
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Allow: /
User-agent: Sosospider
Allow: /
User-agent: Sosospider+
Allow: /
User-agent: Sosospider/2.0
Allow: /
User-agent: yodao
Allow: /
User-agent: youdao
Allow: /
User-agent: YoudaoBot
Allow: /
User-agent: YoudaoBot/1.0
Allow: /

# Block Bad Bots. "AI recommended setting" by ChatGPT

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteExplorer
Disallow: /
User-agent: spbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: WBSearchBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: linkdexbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: netEstate NE Crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Moreover
Disallow: /
User-agent: sentibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Aboundexbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: proximic
Disallow: /
User-agent: oBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: meanpathbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZmEu
Disallow: /
User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow: /
User-agent: python-requests
Disallow: /
User-agent: Go-http-client
Disallow: /
User-agent: Apache-HttpClient
Disallow: /
User-agent: libwww-perl
Disallow: /
User-agent: curl
Disallow: /
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

# ChatGPT Bot Blocker - Block ChatGPT Bot from scrapping your content

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Spam Backlink Blocker

Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /feed/$
Disallow: /comments/feed
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: */?author=*
Disallow: */author/*
Disallow: /author*
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: */comments$
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */feed$
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */trackback$
Disallow: /?feed=
Disallow: /wp-comments
Disallow: /wp-feed
Disallow: /wp-trackback
Disallow: */replytocom=

# Block Bad Bots. Powered by Better Robots.txt Pro

User-agent: GiftGhostBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Seznam
Disallow: /
User-agent: PaperLiBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Genieo 
Disallow: /
User-agent: Dataprovider/6.101
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataproviderSiteExplorer
Disallow: /
User-agent: Dazoobot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DomainStatsBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: dubaiindex
Disallow: /
User-agent: eCommerceBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ExpertSearchSpider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Feedbin
Disallow: /
User-agent: Fetch/2.0a
Disallow: /
User-agent: FFbot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: focusbot/1.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: HuaweiSymantecSpider
Disallow: /
User-agent: HuaweiSymantecSpider/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: JobdiggerSpider
Disallow: /
User-agent: LemurWebCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: LipperheyLinkExplorer
Disallow: /
User-agent: LSSRocketCrawler/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: LYT.SRv1.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: MiaDev/0.0.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: Najdi.si/3.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: BountiiBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Experibot_v1
Disallow: /
User-agent: bixocrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: bixocrawler TestCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crawler4j
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crowsnest/0.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: CukBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Dataprovider/6.92
Disallow: /
User-agent: DBLBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot/0.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: Digg Deeper/v1
Disallow: /
User-agent: discobot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: discobot/1.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: discobot/2.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: discoverybot/2.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Dlvr.it/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: DomainStatsBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: drupact/0.7
Disallow: /
User-agent: Ezooms/1.0  
Disallow: /
User-agent: fastbot crawler beta 2.0  
Disallow: /
User-agent: fastbot crawler beta 4.0  
Disallow: /
User-agent: feedly social
Disallow: /
User-agent: Feedly/1.0  
Disallow: /
User-agent: FeedlyBot/1.0  
Disallow: /
User-agent: Feedspot  
Disallow: /
User-agent: Feedspotbot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2
Disallow: /
User-agent: classbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CISPA Vulnerability Notification
Disallow: /
User-agent: CirrusExplorer/1.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: Checksem/Nutch-1.10
Disallow: /
User-agent: CatchBot/5.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CatchBot/3.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CatchBot/2.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CatchBot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: CamontSpider/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Buzzbot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Buzzbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BusinessSeek.biz_Spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: BUbiNG
Disallow: /
User-agent: 008/0.85
Disallow: /
User-agent: 008/0.83
Disallow: /
User-agent: 008/0.71
Disallow: /
User-agent: ^Nail
Disallow: /
User-agent: FyberSpider/1.3
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta5
Disallow: /
User-agent: g2reader-bot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta6
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.0.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.0.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.0.4
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.0.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.0.9
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.1.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.1.3
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.5
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/2.6
Disallow: /
User-agent: FFbot/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.3-beta8
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.3-beta9
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.4-beta7
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta1
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta1 Yacy
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta2
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta3
Disallow: /
User-agent: findlinks/1.1.6-beta4
Disallow: /
User-agent: bixo
Disallow: /
User-agent: bixolabs/1.0
Disallow: /
User-agent: Crawlera/1.10.2
Disallow: /
User-agent: Dataprovider Site Explorer
Disallow: /

# Backlink Protector. Powered by Better Robots.txt Pro

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Alexibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SurveyBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu's
Disallow: /
User-agent: Xenu's Link Sleuth 1.1c
Disallow: /
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SI
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-CT
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-BM
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot/1.1
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# Image Crawlability by search engines

User-agent: *
Allow: /*.png*
Allow: /*.jpg*
Allow: /*.gif*
Allow: /*.webp*

# Avoid crawler traps causing crawl budget issues

Disallow: /search/
Disallow: *?s=*
Disallow: *?p=*
Disallow: *&p=*
Disallow: *&preview=*
Disallow: /search

# Social Media Crawling

User-agent: facebookexternalhit/1.0
Allow: /
User-agent: facebookexternalhit/1.1
Allow: /
User-agent: facebookplatform/1.0
Allow: /
User-agent: Facebot/1.0
Allow: /
User-agent: Visionutils/0.2
Allow: /
User-agent: datagnionbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot/1.0
Allow: /

User-agent: Pinterest/0.1
Allow: /
User-agent: Pinterest/0.2
Allow: /

# Allow/Disallow Ads.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ads.txt

# Allow/Disallow App-ads.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /app-ads.txt

Crawl-delay: 10

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