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# SECTION 1: GLOBAL RULES & CORE SITE BLOCKS
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User-agent: *

# Standard WordPress System Exclusions
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Disallow Internal Search & Feeds
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /feed/*
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /category/in-the-news/feed/
Disallow: /category/marketing-resources/feed/

# Disallow Private PDFs & Documents
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /*.PDF$
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /pdfs/

# Disallow Staging, Testing, and Demos
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /staging/*
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /test/*
Disallow: /mp-test/
Disallow: /freshchat-test/
Disallow: /test-freshsales-form/
Disallow: /requestdemo_oldversion/

# Disallow Private Lead-Gen Thank You Pages
Disallow: /building-loyal-customer/thankyou/
Disallow: /contact/thankyou/
Disallow: /customer-loyalty-reward-solution/thank-you/
Disallow: /customer-loyalty-solution/thank-you/
Disallow: /digital-transformation-in-businesses/thankyou/
Disallow: /ensuring-customer-loyalty-pays/thankyou/
Disallow: /events/oracle-open-world-san-francisco-2019/thankyou/
Disallow: /events/sibos-london-2019/thankyou/
Disallow: /ezlink/thankyou/
Disallow: /insurer/thankyou/
Disallow: /long-live-loyalty/thankyou-2/
Disallow: /long-live-loyalty/thankyou/
Disallow: /personalize-or-perish/thankyou/
Disallow: /requestademo-old/thankyou/
Disallow: /retail/thankyou/
Disallow: /retails/thankyou/
Disallow: /seasianbank/thankyou/
Disallow: /sephora/thankyou/
Disallow: /telco/thankyou/
Disallow: /thank-you-bank/
Disallow: /top3asianbank/thankyou/

# Disallow Core/Private Admin Pages
Disallow: /about-us/
Disallow: /pages/about-us/
Disallow: /apply-2/
Disallow: /apply/apply-2/
Disallow: /career/
Disallow: /careers/
Disallow: /cs-sla/
Disallow: /enterprise/saas/
Disallow: /enterprise/sla/
Disallow: /fact-sheet/
Disallow: /general-tnc/
Disallow: /merchant/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /newsletter/*
Disallow: /officepartyedm2019/
Disallow: /never-code-alone-edm/
Disallow: /partners/partner-signup-more-details/
Disallow: /case-study-sephora-trial-form/
Disallow: /customer-loyalty-solution-2/
Disallow: /customer-loyalty-solution/
Disallow: /customer-loyalty-reward-solution/
Disallow: /customer-loyalty-engagement-reward-solution/

# Disallow Specific Product Pages & Internal Slides
Disallow: /docs/
Disallow: /docs/*
Disallow: /home/platform
Disallow: /new-home-option-1/platform
Disallow: /platform-newlayout1/
Disallow: /platform/
Disallow: /portfolio/sephora-perx/
Disallow: /seasianbank/casestudy/
Disallow: /sephora/
Disallow: /kpower/
Disallow: /perx-customer-data-and-loyalty-platform-brochure/

# Disallow Blog Background & Brand Assets
Disallow: /blog/perx-bags-no1-spot-the-plug-and-play-apac-summit/background-*
Disallow: /blog/perx-named-among-top-30-deep-tech-startups-at-slingshot-2019/background-*
Disallow: /blog/perx-offsite/
Disallow: /blog/responding-to-disruption-with-innovation/background-*
Disallow: /blog/welcoming-banks-to-the-mobile-first-instant-gratification-economy/background-*
Disallow: /blog/welcoming-banks-to-the-mobile-first-instant-gratification-economy/blogavatar-*
Disallow: /ensuring-customer-loyalty-pays/thought-leadership/shutterstock_*
Disallow: /in-the-news/perx-raises-us5-million-for-expansion-of-highly-personalized-engagement-platform/background-*
Disallow: /in-the-news/perx-technologies-powers-starhubs-new-digital-loyalty-programme/*logo*
Disallow: /in-the-news/perx-technologies-powers-starhubs-new-digital-loyalty-programme/landing-page-banner2/
Disallow: /in-the-news/perx-technologies-powers-starhubs-new-digital-loyalty-programme/smopimg-starhubpr/
Disallow: /in-the-news/perx-technologies-powers-starhubs-new-digital-loyalty-programme/whatsapp-image-*
Disallow: /in-the-news/stock-photo-graphical-*

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# SECTION 2: EXPLICIT AI BOT ALLOW-LISTS
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# 1. Googlebot (Core Search & AI Overviews)
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# 2. Bingbot (Core Search & Copilot Citations)
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# 3. OpenAI Crawlers (ChatGPT Search & AI Citations)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# 4. Anthropic Crawlers (Claude Search & AI Citations)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# 5. Perplexity Crawlers (Perplexity Search Engine Citations)
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

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# SECTION 3: SITEMAP DECLARATION
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Sitemap: https://www.perxtech.com/sitemap.xml