# Global Search Engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo)
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ALLOW: GCC & Indian Regional Mobile / Expat Search Engines
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp
Allow: /

# ALLOW: Google Paid Advertising & Campaign Verification
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Allow: /

# ALLOW: Live AI Search & Retrieval (Drives bookings and referral traffic)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# BLOCK: Bulk AI Training Scrapers (Consumes server bandwidth, returns 0 traffic)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

# Explicitly point to your master map file
Sitemap: https://www.goldensandsdubai.com/sitemap.xml