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# robots.txt — lubechemconsultant.in
# Answer-Engine Optimized: AI assistants & AI-search crawlers are
# explicitly welcomed so this site can be cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity,
# Google AI Overviews / Gemini, Copilot, Claude and Apple Intelligence.
# NOTE: a crawler that matches its OWN User-agent block ignores the "*"
# block, so the AI rules are repeated in the dedicated group below.
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# ── Default: traditional search engines + everything else ──
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/

# ── AI assistants & answer engines — explicitly ALLOWED (citation + grounding) ──
# OpenAI (ChatGPT / SearchGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Perplexity, Google Gemini/AI
# Overviews, Apple Intelligence, Amazon, Meta AI, Cohere, You.com, DuckAssist,
# Common Crawl, Mistral, ByteDance. Remove any line to opt that engine out.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# ── Machine-readable maps for search + AI ──
Sitemap: https://lubechemconsultant.in/wp-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://lubechemconsultant.in/geo-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://lubechemconsultant.in/blog-sitemap.xml
# Country / region markets only (GSC):           https://lubechemconsultant.in/geo-sitemap.xml
# Insights / blog articles only (GSC):           https://lubechemconsultant.in/blog-sitemap.xml
# AI / LLM content map (llmstxt.org standard):  https://lubechemconsultant.in/llms.txt
# HTML sitemap (humans + AI):                    https://lubechemconsultant.in/sitemap/

# Full public page content for AI: https://lubechemconsultant.in/llms-full.txt