# Game Vault Forum robots.txt
# https://www.gamevault.forum
# Permits search engine bots to crawl and index all public gaming content and forum discussions

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new

# Dedicated Crawlers
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Display-Ads-Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# Sitemap & Host declarations for Search Console validation
Sitemap: https://www.gamevault.forum/sitemap.xml
Host: https://www.gamevault.forum

# AI Crawler & LLM Agents
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /forum/new