# BLEXBot
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

# AI training crawlers — blocked.
# Primarily used for model training; kept blocked as possible licensing leverage.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow legacy URLs
Disallow: /search/businesses/
Disallow: /businesss/
Disallow: /trademe/

# Block specific search query strings
Disallow: /*?score=*
Disallow: /*?distance=*
Disallow: /*?currency=*
Disallow: /*?sort=*
Disallow: /*?registered=*
Disallow: /*?cp=*
Disallow: /*?servicing-businesses=*

# Interactive / action paths (login, registration, account & dispute area,
# review submission, contacting a business, posting jobs) — not for crawling
# or indexing.
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /add-business
Disallow: /business/
Disallow: /businesses/*/rate
Disallow: /businesses/*/email
Disallow: /businesses/*/sms
Disallow: /customers/
Disallow: /contact-us/send-message
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/post
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/contact
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/edit
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/registration

# Block CAPTCHA images from Google images
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/captcha/*

# Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider+
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

# Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

# AI retrieval / answer agents — allowed to read public content.
# NOTE: these agents obey ONLY their most specific user-agent group and ignore
# "User-agent: *", so the disallows above are intentionally repeated here.
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search/businesses/
Disallow: /businesss/
Disallow: /trademe/
Disallow: /*?score=*
Disallow: /*?distance=*
Disallow: /*?currency=*
Disallow: /*?sort=*
Disallow: /*?registered=*
Disallow: /*?cp=*
Disallow: /*?servicing-businesses=*
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /add-business
Disallow: /business/
Disallow: /businesses/*/rate
Disallow: /businesses/*/email
Disallow: /businesses/*/sms
Disallow: /customers/
Disallow: /contact-us/send-message
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/post
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/contact
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/edit
Disallow: /new/jobs/index/registration

Sitemap: https://www.nocowboys.co.nz/sitemap.xml

Crawl-delay: 5 # specifies a 2 second timeout