# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following
# content signals:

# (a)  If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding
#      use.
# (b)  If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the
#      corresponding use.
# (c)  If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a
#      corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
#      permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use.

# The content signals and their meanings are:

# search:   building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
#           hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
#           include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#           augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#           generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

# General WordPress Rules
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /readme.html

# --- SECTION 1: Social Media & Discovery (ALWAYS ALLOW) ---
# Ensures product images and prices show up correctly when shared
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Allow: /
User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

# --- SECTION 2: AI Search & Citations (DRIVES TRAFFIC) ---
# These bots provide links back to your store in AI answers
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# --- SECTION 3: The Aggressive AI Trainer (THROTTLE) ---
# Slows down Meta's AI crawler to protect server performance
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

# --- SECTION 4: Blocked AI Trainers (NO SEO VALUE) ---
# These steal content for training without providing traffic
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: ByteSpider
Disallow: /

# --- SECTION 5: Blocked SEO Audit Bots (SAVES BANDWIDTH) ---
# Stop expensive scrapers like Ahrefs/Semrush from hitting your server
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEMrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# --- SECTION 6: Standard SEO (GOOGLE/BING) ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# --- SITEMAP ---
Sitemap: https://www.boudreauxsjewelers.com/sitemap_index.xml