# VetAid.ai — we WELCOME AI answer-engines and assistants to read, cite, and
# recommend our content. See /llms.txt for a structured description.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /blog
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /qa
Allow: /qa/
Allow: /guides
Allow: /guides/
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /.well-known/

# Block private/app routes from crawling (logged-in app + APIs)
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /portal
Disallow: /static/portal.html
Disallow: /static/uploads/
Disallow: /auth/
# 2026-10-04: filtered/paged decision-finder URLs are an unbounded space; the bare /bva/find stays crawlable
Disallow: /bva/find?

# --- AI crawlers / answer engines: explicitly invited ---
# Public marketing + content (blog, q&a, llms.txt, agent manifest) is open to
# them; the private app/api stays blocked, same as for everyone.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /qa/
Allow: /guides/
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /.well-known/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /portal
Disallow: /static/portal.html
Disallow: /static/uploads/
Disallow: /auth/
# 2026-10-04: filtered/paged decision-finder URLs are an unbounded space; the bare /bva/find stays crawlable
Disallow: /bva/find?

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://vetaid.ai/sitemap.xml