# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following
# content signals:

# (a)  If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding
#      use.
# (b)  If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the
#      corresponding use.
# (c)  If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a
#      corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
#      permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use.

# The content signals and their meanings are:

# search:   building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
#           hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
#           include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#           augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#           generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

# This is robots 2.5
# Welcome to VC 2025
# Updated by Vernon 2025-05-13

User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /amp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /scripts/ #block access to scripts
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: *.php$
Disallow: *?
Disallow: /wp-admin/ #block access to admin section
Disallow: /wp-login.php #block access to admin section
Disallow: /search/ #block access to internal search result pages
Disallow: *?s=* #block access to internal search result pages
Disallow: *?p=* #block access to pages for which permalinks fails
Disallow: *&p=* #block access to pages for which permalinks fails
Disallow: *&preview=* #block access to preview pages
Disallow: /404-error/ #block access to 404 page

# Sitemap files
Sitemap: https://vernonchan.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://vernonchan.com/post-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://vernonchan.com/page-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://vernonchan.com/author-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://vernonchan.com/news-sitemap.xml

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