# ===========================================================
# Kirkham Part Exchange Centre — robots.txt
# Max visibility for Google/Bing/Apple/etc. while protecting admin areas
# (AI Visibility module: PerplexityBot + ClaudeBot added to the AI section —
#  everything else unchanged from the previous live file)
# ===========================================================

# Global (applies to all unless overridden)
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
# Optional: disallow site search if present and not meant for indexing
# Disallow: /search
# Optional: disallow parameter-heavy duplicates (uncomment if needed)
# Disallow: /*?*sessionid=
# Disallow: /*?*utm_
# Disallow: /*?*sort=
Crawl-delay: 1

# Major search engines (Google ignores crawl-delay, but harmless)
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Social & preview bots
User-agent: facebot
Allow: /
User-agent: FacebookExternalHit
Allow: /
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Pinterestbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /
User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /
User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

# AI/search bots (keep if you want to be indexed/summarised)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

# Aggressive/irrelevant scrapers — block
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /
User-agent: python-requests
Disallow: /
User-agent: curl
Disallow: /
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

# Sitemaps — keep ONE canonical URL
Sitemap: https://cars-for-sale.site/sitemap.xml
