User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
Allow: /

# Block legacy / admin paths
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /preview
Disallow: /staging
Disallow: /*.tmp$

# AI search crawlers, explicitly allowed for citation and retrieval
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl: allowed. Its dataset also feeds retrieval across many AI tools (owner decision, 2026-07-25)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Training-only crawlers, disallowed (no citation benefit)
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.melatoneskinclinic.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.melatoneskinclinic.co.uk/sitemap.xml