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# Ascendant Enterprise — robots.txt
# REMEMBER: update the Sitemap line below to your real domain.
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User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Application internals — no crawlable content, and some hold secrets.
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /forms/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /vendor/

# Confirmation and result pages: no value in search, and the result
# page can contain a visitor's birth details.
Disallow: /thank-you
Disallow: /thank-you.php
Disallow: /*?*dob=
Disallow: /*?*service=

# Block the .php duplicates so only the clean URLs get indexed.
Disallow: /*.php$
Allow: /sitemap.php

# Well-behaved crawlers only need a light touch on a site this size.
Crawl-delay: 1

# AI crawlers — remove or adjust these four blocks if you would rather
# your gemstone content be used for model training.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.ascendantenterprise.com/sitemap.xml
