# AI Hotels Directory - Robots.txt
# Optimized for AI crawlers and search engines

# Allow all search engines and AI crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# AI Crawlers - Enhanced Access
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Traditional Search Engine Crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

# Social Media Crawlers
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

# Important discovery files
# LLMs.txt - Semantic query index for AI chatbots
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /llm.txt
Allow: /.well-known/llms.txt
Allow: /.well-known/llm.txt
Allow: /ai-index.txt
Allow: /semantic-index.txt

# Sitemap for complete site structure
Sitemap: https://aihoteldirectory.com//sitemap.xml

# Additional discovery files
Allow: /robots.txt

# Block admin and taxonomy archives
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /author/

# Deprecated hotel pages (unpublished or deleted)
Disallow: /hotel/hotel-vena-doro

# Crawl rate suggestions
# Allow frequent crawling for timely updates
Crawl-delay: 1

# Last updated: 2026-03-05