# robots.txt for kindhomepainting.com
# Humans and AI answer engines are both welcome. We want this site found,
# read, and cited.
#
# LLM guidance file:                https://kindhomepainting.com/llms.txt
# Full assistant-readable overview: https://kindhomepainting.com/overview.txt
#
# NOTE 1 — /privacy.html, /terms.html, /thank-you.html, /thank-you-contact.html,
# /404.html and /site-updates.html are deliberately NOT disallowed here. They each carry
# <meta name="robots" content="noindex">, and a crawler has to be able to
# FETCH the page to see that tag. Blocking them in robots.txt would strand
# them in the index as URL-only entries with no title.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- OpenAI (ChatGPT) ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# --- Anthropic (Claude) ---
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# --- Google AI (Gemini, AI Overviews) ---
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# --- Perplexity ---
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# --- Apple Intelligence ---
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# --- Microsoft / Bing (Copilot) ---
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

# --- Meta AI ---
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

# --- Other AI crawlers. For a local service business, presence in an
# --- assistant's answer is upside, so these stay allowed rather than blocked.
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://kindhomepainting.com/sitemap.xml