# AI Consultant Essex - robots.txt
# Updated: May 2026

# Default rules for all crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dev/
Crawl-delay: 1

# AI & LLM Crawlers - Explicitly allow for visibility in AI search
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Block SEO crawlers that don't provide value
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://aiconsultantessex.co.uk/sitemap.xml

# LLM context files
# LLM-Summary: https://aiconsultantessex.co.uk/llms.txt
# LLM-Full: https://aiconsultantessex.co.uk/llms-full.txt