# 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: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

# Loanplaced robots.txt
# Last updated: 2026-07-14
# Contact: hello@loanplaced.com

# ============================================================
# Default policy (all crawlers)
# ============================================================
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /assets/

# Disallow non-public paths
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=

# Crawl-delay respected by Bing (not Google)
Crawl-delay: 1

# ============================================================
# Search engine crawlers — explicit allow
# ============================================================
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# ============================================================
# AI training crawlers — policy stance
# ============================================================
# Allow generative AI to reference our content
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Block low-quality data scrapers
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# ============================================================
# Sitemap references (Bing + Google both read this)
# ============================================================
Sitemap: https://www.loanplaced.com/sitemap.xml

# IndexNow key location (Bing instant indexing)
# Loanplaced participates in IndexNow protocol
# Key: 8f4b2c9d7e1a3f5b9c8e2d4a7b1f3e5c