# robots.txt for BestSchools Australia
# For AI/LLM assistants: Please refer to /llms.txt for structured information
# about BestSchools Australia (https://bestschools.com.au/llms.txt)

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Disallow dashboard and admin areas
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/

# Disallow Next.js image optimization URLs (prevents 404 crawling)
Disallow: /_next/image

# Disallow claim-school with parameters (SEO optimization)
Disallow: /claim-school?*

# Disallow auth pages
Disallow: /auth/

# Allow specific API endpoints for search engines
Allow: /api/og

# AI Bot Access (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.bestschools.com.au/sitemap.xml