# =====================================
# Global rules for all user agents
# =====================================

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.wav
Disallow: /*.mp3
Disallow: /*captcha.png*
Disallow: /*?tl=
Disallow: /*?sl=
Clean-param: ts /*

# =====================================
# Blocklists for known aggressive / unwanted bots
# (Does NOT affect SEO)
# =====================================

# Advertising crawlers
User-agent: ias_crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Chinese crawlers known for heavy crawling
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Sogou inst spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

# SEO tools (not helpful for your site)
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

# Other high-load or low-value crawlers
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: proximic
Disallow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Common scrapers
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: trendemon.com
Disallow: /
User-agent: Seekport Crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /