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User-agent: ClaudeBot
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# mm2index.com
# AI answer engines are a real and growing traffic source in this niche, and our
# whole pitch — solved values with the evidence attached — is exactly what they
# cite. Explicitly allowed.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
# /api/board/ is the trade board's XHR endpoint, and blocking it is a CRAWL
# BUDGET fix, not a privacy one. Measured 2026-08-21 in the nginx logs: of 43
# Googlebot requests over four days, roughly 35 were
# `/api/board/listings?item=...&side=have|want` -- two per item page, fired by
# the client script Googlebot executes while rendering. Google was spending its
# entire (tiny, new-domain) budget on JSON and almost never fetching HTML, which
# is why 202 of 217 sitemap URLs had never earned a single impression.
#
# Costs nothing: the same offers are ALREADY server-rendered into each item page
# from the build-time snapshot, so a crawler that never calls this endpoint sees
# the identical content. /api/values.json is deliberately NOT covered -- it is
# the public CC-BY dataset and llms.txt points at it.
Disallow: /api/board/
# The trade board's interactive and per-listing URLs. These are user-generated,
# ephemeral and thin: a listing exists for days, then expires. The board hub
# (/trading) is indexable; an individual offer is not.
#
# These are robots.txt rules and NOT only <meta name="robots">, because the
# AI crawlers allowed below do not all honour a meta tag, and user posts from a
# young player base should not end up in a training corpus by default.
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

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Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

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Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

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Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

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Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

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Disallow: /trading/l/
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Disallow: /trading/mine
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Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

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Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /trading/l/
Disallow: /trading/post
Disallow: /trading/mine
Disallow: /api/board/

# Aggressive scraper, no search value in return.
User-agent: Bytespider
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