# 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.

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# 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

# Seattle Car Buyer™ — robots.txt
# Updated: April 2025
# Strategy: Block AI TRAINING bots · Allow search engines + AI SEARCH/retrieval bots
# Reference: https://www.seattlecarbuyer.com/sitemap.xml

# ═══ DEFAULT: Allow all ═══
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /thank-you.html

# ═══ BLOCK AI TRAINING / DATA SCRAPING BOTS ═══
# These are primarily used to build or fine-tune LLMs — not for answering user queries
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

# ═══ ALLOW AI SEARCH / RETRIEVAL BOTS ═══
# These help your site appear in real-time AI answers and citations
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# ═══ TRADITIONAL SEARCH ENGINES (full access) ═══
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /images/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

# ═══ SITEMAP ═══
Sitemap: https://www.seattlecarbuyer.com/sitemap.xml