# SnapCostOfLiving Robots.txt

# Major Search Engines - Allow
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
# /city/ and /cities/ are legacy URL patterns - allow crawling so Google can follow canonical redirects
# Disallow: /city/
# Disallow: /cities/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

# Block Aggressive Crawlers & Scrapers
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Block Known Malicious/Aggressive Bots
User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# Default - Allow with rate limiting
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 5

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