# Friday's Watchlist
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Auth & private user areas
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /favorites/
Disallow: /alerts/
Disallow: /garage/

# User-generated / session-specific content (no SEO value)
Disallow: /prediction/
Disallow: /player/
Disallow: /brackets/

# NOTE: /report/ is indexable content (fair value + deal score + comps) — NOT blocked.
# NOTE: /vin-history/ is intentionally de-indexed via a page-level noindex meta, NOT via
#   robots.txt. Blocking it here would stop Googlebot from ever seeing the noindex, leaving
#   already-indexed VIN pages stuck as "indexed, though blocked by robots.txt". Allowing the
#   crawl lets Google read the noindex and drop them. Do NOT re-add Disallow: /vin-history/.

# Short-link redirects (canonical URL is the destination)
Disallow: /s/
Disallow: /p/

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# AI / LLM crawlers — explicitly welcome.
# NOTE: in robots.txt a named user-agent group REPLACES the "*" group for that
# bot, so the private-area Disallows below are intentionally repeated. Removing
# them would silently open /admin, /account, /garage, etc. to these crawlers.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /favorites/
Disallow: /alerts/
Disallow: /garage/
Disallow: /prediction/
Disallow: /player/
Disallow: /brackets/
Disallow: /s/
Disallow: /p/

# Machine-readable context for AI agents
# /llms.txt      — concise product + pricing summary
# /llms-full.txt — expanded summary + full market-report index
# /pricing.md    — structured pricing for agentic comparison

# Always use HTTPS
Host: https://fridayswatchlist.com

Sitemap: https://fridayswatchlist.com/sitemap.xml