# https://www.vistra.com/robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    https://www.vistra.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: https://www.vistra.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

# Start: Block ChatGPT crawler
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
# End

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /people/
Disallow: /*/people/
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /*/profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /*/admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /*/comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /*/filter/tips
Disallow: /node/ #PP changed from /node/add/
Disallow: /*/node/
Disallow: /search/? #PP added "?"
Disallow: /*/search/?
Disallow: /user/ #PP added
Disallow: /*/user/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /*/user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /*/user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /*/user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /*/user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /term-listing/
Disallow: /*/term-listing/
Disallow: /print/
Disallow: /*/print/
#Disallow: /de/taxonomy/term/ #canonicalised so not deindexed
#Disallow: /zh-hans/taxonomy/term/ #canonicalised so not deindexed
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.gif
Allow: /*.jpeg
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.svg
Allow: /*.woff2
Allow: /*utm_campaign=google_search_box

User-agent: *
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /*/profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /*/admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /*/comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /*/filter/tips
Disallow: /node/ #PP changed from /node/add/
Disallow: /*/node/
Disallow: /search/? #PP added "?"
Disallow: /*/search/?
Disallow: /user/ #PP added
Disallow: /*/user/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /*/user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /*/user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /*/user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /*/user/logout/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /term-listing/
Disallow: /*/term-listing/
Disallow: /print/
Disallow: /*/print/
#Disallow: /de/taxonomy/term/ #canonicalised so not deindexed
#Disallow: /zh-hans/taxonomy/term/ #canonicalised so not deindexed
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.gif
Allow: /*.jpeg
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.svg
Allow: /*.woff2
Allow: /*utm_campaign=google_search_box

# BB Additional rules
User-agent: meanpathbot
User-agent: MegaIndex.ru/2.0
User-agent: MegaIndex.ru/
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-Agent: Sogou web spider
User-Agent: Qwantify
User-Agent: Barkrowler
User-Agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /


Sitemap: https://www.vistra.com/sitemap.xml