# 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. # ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF # 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: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / # END Cloudflare Managed Content

# robots.txt for Valley Finder
# https://valleyfinder.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /cities
Allow: /categories
Allow: /events
Allow: /news
Allow: /leaderboards
Allow: /search

# Disallow admin and private areas
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /my-businesses/
Disallow: /my-events/

# Disallow authentication pages (optional - you may want to allow these for SEO)
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password

# Allow specific public pages
Allow: /contact
Allow: /privacy-policy
Allow: /terms-of-service
Allow: /pricing
Allow: /add-business
Allow: /claim-business

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://valleyfinder.com/sitemap.xml

# Crawl-delay (optional - adjust if needed)
# Crawl-delay: 1