# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following # content signals: # (a) If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding # use. # (b) If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the # corresponding use. # (c) If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a # corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts # permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use. # The content signals and their meanings are: # search: building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning # hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not # include providing AI-generated search summaries. # ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval # augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for # generative AI search answers). # ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models. # use: how AI systems may consume the content (immediate, reference, or full). # ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF # RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT # AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET. # BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content User-agent: * Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no,use=reference Allow: / # Training crawlers User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: omgili Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: MistralAI-Training Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleOther Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: AwarioSmartBot User-agent: AwarioRssBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Disallow: / User-agent: QualifiedBot Disallow: / User-agent: Cotoyogi Disallow: / User-agent: ICC-Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: atlassian-bot Disallow: / User-agent: FishBot Disallow: / User-agent: BorderxBot Disallow: / User-agent: NavuBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA Disallow: / User-agent: WARDBot Disallow: / User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: KimiBot Disallow: / User-agent: CitibotSiteCrawler Disallow: / # END Cloudflare Managed Content # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 1. SEARCH CRAWLERS # Index content now to answer questions about it later. This category governs # Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode inclusion, and reaches Microsoft # Copilot through the Bing index. Both are tracked engines in the product. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: Googlebot-Image User-agent: Googlebot-News User-agent: Storebot-Google User-agent: bingbot User-agent: msnbot User-agent: Slurp User-agent: DuckDuckBot User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: YandexBot User-agent: Baiduspider User-agent: Applebot User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: YouBot Allow: / Allow: /landingpage/ Allow: /_next/static/ Allow: /_next/image Disallow: /api/ # OAI-SearchBot, not GPTBot, determines whether ChatGPT can surface and cite # lanesra.ai. Sites block GPTBot over training concerns, leave OAI-SearchBot # blocked by oversight, and then cannot explain the absence of citations. # # Storebot-Google is Google's agentic shopping crawler. Included deliberately: # the platform ships AI Shopping tracking on every plan. # # /landingpage/ holds the SVG logo and preview assets referenced by the # Organization structured data. Blocking it forfeits logo eligibility. # # /_next/static/ and /_next/image must remain open. Blocking a Next.js build # directory prevents rendering and is among the most common self inflicted # indexing failures. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 2. AGENT CRAWLERS # Fetch a page in real time on behalf of a person who is waiting. These # produce live citations inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot # sessions and carry the shortest path from an AI answer to a visit. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: MistralAI-User User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Allow: / Allow: /landingpage/ Allow: /_next/static/ Allow: /_next/image Disallow: /api/ # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 3. TRAINING AND CORPUS CRAWLERS # Absorb content into model weights, or into corpora that feed model # weights. Allowed. For a brand whose name is a well known football club # spelled backwards, presence in training data is how the entity resolves # correctly rather than collapsing into the club. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: CCBot User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler User-agent: meta-externalagent User-agent: meta-externalfetcher User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: TikTokSpider User-agent: AI2Bot User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB Allow: / Allow: /landingpage/ Allow: /_next/static/ Allow: /_next/image Disallow: /api/ # Google-Extended governs Gemini grounding and model training. It does NOT # govern AI Overviews or AI Mode inclusion, which are controlled by Googlebot # together with the nosnippet, max-snippet and data-nosnippet directives. # Disallowing Google-Extended does not remove a site from AI Overviews, and # allowing it does not gain entry. This is the most frequently misstated fact # in the category. # # Bytespider is documented as disregarding robots.txt. Its inclusion here is a # statement of intent, not a control. # # No publicly documented crawler user agent exists for Grok or DeepSeek at the # time of this revision, though both are tracked engines in the product. Add # them here if identifiers are published. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 4. SEO AND MARKET RESEARCH CRAWLERS # Allowed on purpose. Blocking Ahrefs or Semrush does not conceal a backlink # profile, which is reconstructed by crawling other people's sites. The only # effect is removal from the competitive research agencies run when they # shortlist tools in this category. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: AhrefsBot User-agent: SemrushBot User-agent: DataForSeoBot User-agent: rogerbot User-agent: dotbot User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: BLEXBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 5. ALL OTHER CRAWLERS # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /landingpage/ Allow: /_next/static/ Allow: /_next/image Disallow: /api/ # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Sitemaps. Absolute URLs are required. Sitemap directives are global and # independent of the groups above. Confirm a 200 response before shipping. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sitemap: https://lanesra.ai/sitemap.xml # ============================================================================= # DELIBERATE OMISSIONS # # No Crawl-delay. Google ignores it. Bing honours it, which would slow crawling # for no benefit at this site's scale. # # No Disallow on tracking parameters (?utm_, ?ref=, ?gclid=, ?fbclid=). A # blocked URL is never fetched, so the crawler never reads the rel=canonical # that would consolidate it, leaving duplicates that cannot be corrected. # Parameter duplication is a canonical tag problem, not a robots.txt problem. # # No noindex. robots.txt noindex was never part of the standard and Google # ended support in 2019. Use the meta robots tag or the X-Robots-Tag header. # # No path wildcards. Wildcards are honoured by Google and Bing but are absent # from RFC 9309, so smaller AI crawlers may parse them unpredictably. Every # rule here is a literal prefix. # # This file cannot block anything. robots.txt is advisory. Crawlers that ignore # it are stopped at the edge or not at all. # =============================================================================