User-agent: *
# Core content - always allow for creative showcase
Allow: /
Allow: /services/
Allow: /portfolio/
Allow: /case-studies/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /about/
Allow: /contact/

# Block administrative and utility areas
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /draft/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /internal/

# Block low-value pages that waste crawl budget  
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?search=*
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /404/
Disallow: /*?*print=*
Disallow: /*/print/

# Future multilingual preparation - allow planned directories
Allow: /no/
Allow: /sk/

# AI Training Crawlers - Strategic blocking for content protection
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /portfolio/
Disallow: /case-studies/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /services/

User-agent: ClaudeBot  
Disallow: /portfolio/
Disallow: /case-studies/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /services/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /portfolio/
Disallow: /case-studies/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /services/

# AI Citation/Search Crawlers - Allow for visibility
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# Traditional search engines - full access
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: BingBot
Allow: /

# Webflow auto-generates this line - don't duplicate
# Sitemap: https://ampersand.house/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.ampersand.house/sitemap.xml