# robots.txt for https://www.kent.ac.uk
# Last updated: 2025-01-07
 
# Explicit allow section

# Regular search engines
User-agent: *

Allow: /courses/
Allow: /research/
Allow: /news/
Allow: /about/
Allow: /international/
Allow: /scholarships/
Allow: /locations/
Allow: /accommodation/
Allow: /events/
Allow: /whats-on/
 
# Private
Disallow: /student/my-study/
 
# Block AI Training Crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-web
Disallow: /
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
 
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?q=
 
# Delay in seconds
Crawl-delay: 10
 
# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.kent.ac.uk/sitemap.xml