Robots.txt

Robots.txt Rules

Crawler Rules
All
  • Allow: /
  • Disallow: /admin/
  • Disallow: /api/auth
  • Disallow: /api/v1
  • Disallow: /api/v2
  • Disallow: /api/v3
  • Disallow: /author/*/page/
  • Disallow: /comment-fetch/
  • Disallow: /comment-reply-fetch/
  • Disallow: /fetch/
  • Disallow: /modules-fetch/
  • Disallow: /mymodule/tag/
  • Disallow: /mymodule/vehicle-sub-model-year-tag-trim/compare/
  • Disallow: /mymodule/vehicle-sub-model-year-tag/
  • Disallow: /*pixel.png
  • Disallow: /profile/
  • Disallow: /public/build/quill
  • Disallow: /search/
  • Disallow: /tag/interaction-card/
  • Disallow: /tag/search/db-home/
  • Disallow: /tag/search/listing-page/
  • Disallow: /tldr/
  • Disallow: /wordpress/wp-content/
"008"
  • Allow: /
anthropic-ai
  • Allow: /
applebot
  • Allow: /
applebot-extended
  • Allow: /
bytespider
  • Allow: /
ccbot
  • Allow: /
chatgpt-user
  • Allow: /
claude-web
  • Allow: /
claudebot
  • Allow: /
cohere-ai
  • Allow: /
diffbot
  • Allow: /
facebookbot
  • Allow: /
gptbot
  • Allow: /
httrack
  • Allow: /
nutch
  • Allow: /
offline explorer
  • Allow: /
omgili
  • Allow: /
scrapy
  • Allow: /
youbot
  • Allow: /
  • Disallow: /

Sitemaps

Priority Location
2https://www.makeuseof.com/sitemap.xml
1https://www.makeuseof.com/post_google_news.xml

Raw Text

# Valnet content is made available for your non-commercial use subject to our
# Terms of Use here: https://www.valnetinc.com/en/terms-of-use
# Use of any robot, crawler, or other tool to scrape, harvest, extract, or retrieve any content on
# this website using automated means is prohibited without written permission from Valnet.
# Prohibited uses include but are not limited to:
# (1) text and data mining under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single
# Market;
# (2) development or operation of artificial intelligence or machine learning software or
# databases, including by training, fine-tuning, embedding, and retrieval-augmented generation;
# (3) creating data sets containing our content or sharing it with others; and
# (4) any commercial purposes.
# Contact info@valnetinc.com for assistance.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/auth
Disallow: /api/v1
Disallow: /api/v2
Disallow: /api/v3
Disallow: /author/*/page/
Disallow: /comment-fetch/
Disallow: /comment-reply-fetch/
Disallow: /fetch/
Disallow: /modules-fetch/
Disallow: /mymodule/tag/
Disallow: /mymodule/vehicle-sub-model-year-tag-trim/compare/
Disallow: /mymodule/vehicle-sub-model-year-tag/
Disallow: /*pixel.png
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /public/build/quill
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/interaction-card/
Disallow: /tag/search/db-home/
Disallow: /tag/search/listing-page/
Disallow: /tldr/
Disallow: /wordpress/wp-content/

# Block AI content scrapers
User-agent: "008"
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: Offline Explorer
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.makeuseof.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.makeuseof.com/post_google_news.xml