# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following
# content signals:

# (a)  If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding
#      use.
# (b)  If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the
#      corresponding use.
# (c)  If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a
#      corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
#      permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use.

# The content signals and their meanings are:

# search:   building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
#           hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
#           include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#           augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#           generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content

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

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

# King Shot Handbook robots.txt
# Optimized for SEO crawling — Updated February 2026

# ─── Default rules for all crawlers ───
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /_next/static/
Allow: /_next/image
Allow: /favicon.ico
Allow: /manifest.json
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /guides/bookmarks
Disallow: /guides/progress
Disallow: /dashboard

# ─── Googlebot — no restrictions beyond API/admin ───
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Allow: /_next/static/
Allow: /_next/image
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /guides/bookmarks
Disallow: /guides/progress
Disallow: /dashboard

# ─── Googlebot-Image ───
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

# ─── Bingbot ───
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Allow: /_next/static/
Allow: /_next/image
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /guides/bookmarks
Disallow: /guides/progress
Disallow: /dashboard
Crawl-delay: 1

# ─── Yandex ───
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 2

# ─── DuckDuckBot ───
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 1

# ─── Block AI training crawlers ───
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# ─── Block SEO scraper bots ───
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

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