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# llms.txt — Large Language Model & AI Crawler Preferences
# Website: https://theseoguidebook.com/
# Publisher: Pixelghetto Marketing
# Contact: info@pixelghetto.pl
# Last Updated: September 2025
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# Purpose:
# This file is an experimental, community-driven standard designed
# to signal how Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI crawlers may
# interact with and use the content on this website.
#
# Disclaimer:
# - This is NOT yet an officially recognised web standard.
# - Respect and enforcement depend entirely on crawler compliance.
# - For enforceable rules, also use robots.txt and meta directives
#   (e.g. <meta name="robots" content="noai,noimageai">).
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# General Rules
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Allow: /

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# AI Usage Directives
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# Content on this website may NOT be used to train commercial AI models
# without explicit written permission from Pixelghetto Marketing.
# Limited summarisation is permitted ONLY if accompanied by full source
# attribution and a direct link to https://theseoguidebook.com/.

AI-Usage: no-training
AI-Usage: allow-summary-with-attribution
Attribution: required
Attribution-Link: https://theseoguidebook.com/

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# Known AI Crawlers
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# Specific directives for known LLM-related bots and scrapers.
# (List may expand as new crawlers are identified.)

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
AI-Usage: allow-summary-with-attribution

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BingAI
Disallow: /

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# Attribution Policy
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# If this website’s content is referenced, quoted, or summarised by
# AI systems, the following attribution is REQUIRED:
# “Source: The SEO Guide Book (https://theseoguidebook.com/)”
# 
# Failure to attribute correctly is considered a violation of these terms.

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# Additional Notes
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# 1. This file is published in good faith to promote transparency
#    and ethical use of web content in AI systems.
# 2. Compliance depends on crawler goodwill — treat this as guidance.
# 3. Site owners are encouraged to also configure robots.txt, HTTP
#    headers, and meta directives for broader enforcement.
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