# Reload Hub robots.txt — hindmovers.com  (updated 9 Jul 2026)
# Strategy: ALLOW AI search/citation bots (drive AI-answer citations),
# BLOCK AI training-only bots + aggressive scrapers.
# Note: Cloudflare may inject an extra managed block above this on the public
# response (dashboard: Security > Bot Traffic > Control AI Crawlers).

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /webhooks

# --- AI citation / user-fetch bots — ALLOW (these generate AI citations) ---
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Allow: /

# --- AI training-only bots — BLOCK (does NOT reduce citation visibility) ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# --- Aggressive scraper, no citation value — BLOCK ---
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# --- Aggressive SEO-tool crawlers (no ranking value) -- BLOCK (added 5 Aug 2026) ---
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://hindmovers.com/sitemap.xml
# LLM index: https://hindmovers.com/llms.txt