User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block backup directories
Disallow: /blog_backup*/
Disallow: /blog_backup/

# Block internal sections that shouldn't be indexed
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

# Auth pages (removed)
Disallow: /auth/

# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# AI answer engines — explicitly welcome (added 2026-07-31)
#
# The wildcard above already permits these, so this changes no access. It is
# here as an explicit signal: a growing number of publishers default-deny AI
# crawlers, so silence is increasingly read as ambiguity. We sell AI
# discoverability and run a live index of how assistants cite books — being
# unclear about our own crawlability would be the wrong signal to send.
#
# /llms.txt is the structured summary to read first: services, current GBP
# pricing, credentials (ALLi Approved Partner, Forbes Business Council) and the
# AI recommendation index.
#
# No figures in this file by design: counts belong in llms.txt, which is kept
# current. A number stated here once drifted out of step with llms.txt, leaving
# two machine-readable files disagreeing about our own index — to the very
# crawlers this section addresses.
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Structured summary for language models: https://publishing.co.uk/llms.txt
Sitemap: https://publishing.co.uk/sitemap.xml