# placid.asia — Placid Asia Co., Ltd
# Acoustic and vibration measurement equipment for Thailand and ASEAN

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Default: everything crawlable except admin
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin-login/
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /api/

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Search engines
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin-login/

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin-login/

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# AI search and answer engines — explicitly allowed.
# These send referral traffic and cite sources. Our product pages are
# standards-anchored technical content and we want them quotable.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin-login/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin-login/

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Bulk scrapers — no referral traffic, no citation. Blocked.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sitemap: https://placid.asia/sitemap.xml