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# Mardi Gras Custom Beads. AI answer engines, voice assistants and search engines are welcome.
# AI reference: https://promotionbeads.com/llms.txt
#               https://promotionbeads.com/llms-full.txt
#               https://promotionbeads.com/ai.txt
#
# NOTE ON WHAT THIS FILE CAN AND CANNOT DO (optimization.md PART 106.2):
# robots.txt is ADVISORY. A Disallow is a request that polite crawlers honor. The scrapers
# you most want gone are the ones that ignore it, so the Disallow list below is the courtesy
# layer, not a control. Real refusal is a WAF/firewall rule.
# Grok/xAI and Perplexity both retrieve using undeclared or spoofed user agents, so our entries
# for them are a published statement of welcome, not a switch we hold.
# Google-Extended governs GEMINI TRAINING ONLY. It does not affect Googlebot or organic ranking.
#
# The Disallow list below was built from THIS domain's own access log (139,103 UA-bearing
# requests across Aug-Sep 2026), not copied from a blog post. Every agent named was measured
# hitting this host.

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- AI answer engines: INVITED
# OpenAI — GPTBot trains, OAI-SearchBot cites, ChatGPT-User is a live user fetch.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic — ClaudeBot trains, Claude-SearchBot cites, Claude-User is a live user fetch.
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

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

# Google Gemini (TRAINING SCOPE ONLY — not Googlebot, not AI Overviews eligibility)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# xAI / Grok
User-agent: GrokBot
Allow: /
User-agent: xAI-Grok
Allow: /
User-agent: Grok-DeepSearch
Allow: /
User-agent: xAI-Bot
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence (training scope)
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl — feeds many downstream models
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ByteDance / Amazon
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# SpaceXAI — added 2026-09-04 by owner directive (optimization.md PART 110.0)
User-agent: SpaceXAI
Allow: /

# --------------------------------------------------------------------- Voice assistants
# Siri / Spotlight / Safari — honors robots.txt and publishes its IP ranges.
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
# Alexa
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /
# bingbot also serves Microsoft CoPilot and, largely, DuckDuckGo. There is no separate CoPilot UA.
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# --------------------------------- Commercial scrapers and link-graph harvesters: REFUSED
# Every name below was measured in this domain's own access log 2026-08 to 2026-09.
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: barkrowler
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: 360Spider
Disallow: /

# --------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/mu-plugins/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-config.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?orderby=
Disallow: /*?filter_
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

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