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# Crawl-budget policy (set 19 Aug 2026, from GSC Crawl Stats + nginx logs)
#
#  • Google's whole crawl budget for this host is ~49 requests/day, and 59% of it
#    was spent on IMAGES that returned 0 clicks / 0 impressions in 3 months
#    (GSC → Performance → тип поиска «Изображения»). Googlebot-Image is therefore
#    kept off the image proxies below so that budget goes to HTML instead.
#    NB: only Googlebot-IMAGE is restricted — plain Googlebot may still fetch
#    images for page rendering and Product/JSON-LD rich results.
#
#  • Third-party SEO crawlers were ~50% of ALL requests to this site
#    (AhrefsBot 32k/day, SemrushBot 2.5k, DataForSeoBot 1k, MJ12bot 0.7k) while
#    Googlebot did 1. They bring no search traffic: the freeloaders are blocked,
#    Ahrefs/Semrush are merely slowed so our own link-building audits still work.
#    None of this affects Google or Bing indexing.
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /css/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /vendor/
Disallow: /storage/framework/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /posts/
Disallow: /track

# Google Images brings zero traffic — don't spend the host's crawl budget on it.
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /img/
Disallow: /img2/

# SEO-tool crawlers. A per-agent group REPLACES the "*" group for that agent,
# so the shared Disallow list is repeated here on purpose.
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /vendor/
Disallow: /storage/framework/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /posts/
Disallow: /track

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /vendor/
Disallow: /storage/framework/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /posts/
Disallow: /track

# No upside for us at all — full stop.
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

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