User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block admin and internal paths (protect crawl budget)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /customer/
Allow: /catalogsearch/result/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /catalog/product/gallery/
Disallow: /index.php/
Disallow: /search/ajax/
Disallow: /rest/
Disallow: /graphql

# Prefer canonical CMS hubs over thin duplicates
Disallow: /our-services.html

# AI / answer engines — allow crawl of public content for accurate citations
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

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

# Human-readable HTML sitemap (also useful for AI retrieval)
# https://expoundcoderz.com/site-map
# LLM guide: https://expoundcoderz.com/llms.txt
Sitemap: https://expoundcoderz.com/sitemap-images.xml