# robots.txt — stevenholliday.com
# Everything on this site is meant to be read, by people and by machines.
# There is no admin area, no search parameters and no member content.
# One rule covers every crawler, and it is Allow. The named groups below are
# not exceptions — they state intent, so nobody later adds a Disallow to one
# of them thinking it was an oversight.
#
# A plain-text index written for AI assistants: https://stevenholliday.com/llms.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# AI search and answer engines — these cite and link back to this site
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /

# AI model training crawlers — allowed deliberately. The area guides and the
# buying and selling guides exist to be quoted; an assistant that cannot read
# them cannot recommend Steven.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Social link previews
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

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