# robots.txt for Lovpics
# https://lovpics.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- Private / non-content areas (never index) ---
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /checkout/

# --- Query-parameter noise (avoid duplicate/crawl waste) ---
Disallow: /*?session_id=
Disallow: /*?token=
Disallow: /*?utm_

# --- Major search engines (explicitly allowed) ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# --- AI / answer-engine crawlers (GEO/AEO citation strategy; facts in /llms.txt) ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# --- Sitemaps (root index + WordPress blog at /blog/) ---
Sitemap: https://lovpics.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://lovpics.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml