# 1. ALLOW AI SEARCH & CITATION CRAWLERS
# These power AI Overviews (Google), ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini.
# Allowing them is required to be cited in AI answers — the dominant
# discovery channel for travel queries in 2026.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# 2. BLOCK LOW-VALUE SCRAPERS (no meaningful citation traffic)
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# 3. ALLOW STANDARD SEARCH ENGINES (Google/Bing/Yahoo)
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block low-value pages from indexing
Disallow: /houseboats-com-links/
Disallow: /houseboats-com-videos/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /*?*

# 4. SITEMAP REFERENCE
Sitemap: https://houseboats.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://houseboats.com/sitemap-images.xml