# robots.txt — Kenya Bay Beach Hotel
# https://www.kenyabay.com/robots.txt
#
# PREREQUISITE: this file does nothing while the site still emits
# <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> sitewide.
# Remove that tag FIRST (Yoast > Settings > Site Features, and
# Settings > Reading > uncheck "Discourage search engines").

# ---------- Conventional search engines ----------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

# ---------- AI answer engines / LLM retrieval ----------
# These are the agents that determine whether the hotel appears in
# ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot answers.

# OpenAI
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot          # powers ChatGPT search results
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User           # user-triggered browsing
Allow: /
User-agent: GPTBot                 # model training corpus
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google Gemini / AI Overviews
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl — feeds many downstream models
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ---------- Everything else ----------
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.kenyabay.com/sitemap_index.xml