# Rodent & Wildlife Services LLC
# Open to everyone. The crawlers below are already covered by the wildcard rule
# above; they are named so that a later edit to the wildcard cannot silently cut
# off search or AI discovery. To opt out of any one of them, change its Allow to
# Disallow.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- Search engines ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# --- AI answer engines (these cite sources and send real referral traffic) ---
# ChatGPT search results and citations.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Perplexity answers.
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Claude web search and citations.
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# --- AI training and grounding ---
# Google-Extended controls Gemini and AI Overviews only. It is NOT Googlebot and
# blocking it does not affect ordinary search ranking.
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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