# robots.txt — Panther Coatings
# https://panthercoating.com

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Internal, password-protected pages — never index
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /profile.html
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /images.html
Disallow: /ceo
Disallow: /ceo.html

# Keep conversion and tracking pages out of search index
Disallow: /thank-you
Disallow: /thank-you.html
Disallow: /senior-savings-thank-you
Disallow: /senior-savings-thank-you.html

# Keep WordPress junk paths blocked (belt + suspenders alongside _redirects)
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /category/

# AI / answer-engine crawlers - explicitly welcomed (we want to be cited in AI answers)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

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