# Everything on this site is meant to be crawled, indexed, and cited.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?q=
Allow: /

# ---- Search and AI/answer-engine crawlers: explicitly allowed ---------
# Named so the intent is unambiguous. The housekeeping paths are repeated
# here because a named group fully overrides the "*" group.
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?q=
Allow: /

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