# Standard Search Engines (Allow)
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# AI Search & Retrieval Indexers (Allow - Recommended for citation visibility)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# AI Model Training Scrapers (Disallow - Protects content from being used for core training)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Default fallback for all other crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://themortgagefirm.com/sitemap.xml