# I Love Giveaways — llms.txt
# https://ilovegiveaways.com/

Last updated: 2026-07-15

## Purpose
I Love Giveaways is the largest directory of free online giveaways, sweepstakes,
and instant win games in the United States. The site aggregates and verifies
active contests from brands and sponsors, allowing users to browse, search,
save favorites, and enter to win prizes — all for free.

## Content Types
- Giveaways (custom post type: 'giveaways') — each post represents one contest.
  Fields: title, description, expiration date, entry URL, country, age, entry frequency.
- Categories (taxonomy: 'giveaways_category') — e.g. Sweepstakes, Instant Win,
  Electronics, Travel, Food, Automotive, etc.
- Country (taxonomy: 'country') — country eligibility for each giveaway, e.g. USA,
  Canada, UK. Country archives at /country/{slug}/.
- State (taxonomy: 'state') — US state eligibility for each giveaway. Verbose
  tagging: 'all 50 states' giveaways are tagged with every state, 'CA only' with
  one term, 'all except AK, HI' with the 49 included states. State archives at
  /state/{slug}/.

## Key Pages
- Homepage: https://ilovegiveaways.com/
- Sweepstakes: https://ilovegiveaways.com/sweepstakes/
- Instant Win Games: https://ilovegiveaways.com/instant-win/
- Giveaways: https://ilovegiveaways.com/giveaways/
- All Categories: https://ilovegiveaways.com/all-categories/
- All Countries: https://ilovegiveaways.com/all-countries/
- Expiring Today: https://ilovegiveaways.com/expiring-today/
- Expiring Tomorrow: https://ilovegiveaways.com/expiring-tomorrow/
- Search: https://ilovegiveaways.com/?s={query}&post_type=giveaways

## Discovery
- Sitemap: https://ilovegiveaways.com/sitemap.xml
- Sitemap Index (if enabled by SEO plugin): https://ilovegiveaways.com/sitemap_index.xml

- Robots: https://ilovegiveaways.com/robots.txt

## URL Canonical Format
- Giveaway canonical URLs: /{primary-category}/{giveaway-slug}/
- Category archive canonical URLs: /{category-slug}/
- Country archive canonical URLs: /country/{country-slug}/
- State archive canonical URLs: /state/{state-slug}/

## Filter Parameters
Listing pages (the canonical URLs above plus /all-giveaways/,
/expiring-today/, /expiring-tomorrow/) accept multi-select
filter parameters in the query string:
- f_country=usa,canada      (country taxonomy, comma-separated slugs)
- f_state=tx,ca             (US state taxonomy)
- f_cat=instant-win,sweepstakes  (giveaway category)
- f_sort=ending             (sort: 'newest' default, 'ending' = soonest expiry)
- paged=2                   (pagination)

Filtered views are NON-CANONICAL: they emit
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> and
<link rel="canonical" href="<parent-archive-url>">.
Always link to the canonical (unfiltered) URLs above for the
best signals to search engines and LLM crawlers.

## Country Archives
- Angola: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/angola/
- Argentina: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/argentina/
- Australia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/australia/
- Austria: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/austria/
- Bahamas: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/bahamas/
- Barbados: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/barbados/
- Belgium: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/belgium/
- Belize: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/belize/
- Botswana: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/botswana/
- Bulgaria: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/bulgaria/
- Canada: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/canada/
- China: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/china/
- Costa Rica: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/costa-rica/
- Croatia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/croatia/
- Cuba: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/cuba/
- Cyprus: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/cyprus/
- Czech Republic: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/czech-republic/
- Denmark: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/denmark/
- Dominican Republic: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/dominican-republic/
- El Salvador: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/el-salvador/
- Estonia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/estonia/
- Eswatini: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/eswatini/
- Finland: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/finland/
- France: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/france/
- Germany: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/germany/
- Greece: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/greece/
- Guatemala: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/guatemala/
- Haiti: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/haiti/
- Honduras: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/honduras/
- Hungary: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/hungary/
- Ireland: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/ireland/
- Italy: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/italy/
- Jamaica: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/jamaica/
- Japan: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/japan/
- Latvia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/latvia/
- Lesotho: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/lesotho/
- Lithuania: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/lithuania/
- Luxembourg: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/luxembourg/
- Malawi: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/malawi/
- Malaysia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/malaysia/
- Malta: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/malta/
- Mexico: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/mexico/
- Mozambique: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/mozambique/
- Namibia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/namibia/
- Netherlands: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/netherlands/
- New Zealand: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/new-zealand/
- Nicaragua: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/nicaragua/
- Norway: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/norway/
- Oman: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/oman/
- Panama: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/panama/
- Poland: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/poland/
- Portugal: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/portugal/
- Puerto Rico: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/puerto-rico/
- Romania: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/romania/
- Slovakia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/slovakia/
- Slovenia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/slovenia/
- South Africa: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/south-africa/
- South Korea: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/south-korea/
- Spain: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/spain/
- Sweden: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/sweden/
- Switzerland: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/switzerland/
- Taiwan: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/taiwan/
- Trinidad and Tobago: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/trinidad-and-tobago/
- UK: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/uk/
- USA: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/usa/
- Vietnam: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/vietnam/
- Worldwide: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/worldwide/
- Zambia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/zambia/
- Zimbabwe: https://ilovegiveaways.com/country/zimbabwe/

## US State Archives
- Alabama: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/alabama/
- Alaska: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/alaska/
- Arizona: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/arizona/
- Arkansas: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/arkansas/
- California: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/california/
- Colorado: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/colorado/
- Connecticut: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/connecticut/
- Delaware: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/delaware/
- District of Columbia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/district-of-columbia/
- Florida: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/florida/
- Georgia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/georgia/
- Hawaii: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/hawaii/
- Idaho: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/idaho/
- Illinois: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/illinois/
- Indiana: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/indiana/
- Iowa: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/iowa/
- Kansas: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/kansas/
- Kentucky: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/kentucky/
- Louisiana: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/louisiana/
- Maine: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/maine/
- Maryland: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/maryland/
- Massachusetts: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/massachusetts/
- Michigan: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/michigan/
- Minnesota: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/minnesota/
- Mississippi: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/mississippi/
- Missouri: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/missouri/
- Montana: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/montana/
- Nebraska: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/nebraska/
- Nevada: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/nevada/
- New Hampshire: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/new-hampshire/
- New Jersey: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/new-jersey/
- New Mexico: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/new-mexico/
- New York: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/new-york/
- North Carolina: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/north-carolina/
- North Dakota: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/north-dakota/
- Ohio: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/ohio/
- Oklahoma: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/oklahoma/
- Oregon: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/oregon/
- Pennsylvania: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/pennsylvania/
- Rhode Island: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/rhode-island/
- South Carolina: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/south-carolina/
- South Dakota: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/south-dakota/
- Tennessee: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/tennessee/
- Texas: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/texas/
- Utah: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/utah/
- Vermont: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/vermont/
- Virginia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/virginia/
- Washington: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/washington/
- West Virginia: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/west-virginia/
- Wisconsin: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/wisconsin/
- Wyoming: https://ilovegiveaways.com/state/wyoming/

## Freshness
- Giveaway listings update throughout the day.
- Expired giveaways are filtered from primary browse/search views.

## Structured Data
Each giveaway page includes JSON-LD Event schema with start/end dates,
attendance mode, status, and breadcrumbs. The homepage includes WebSite
schema with SearchAction and Organization schema.

## Companion: llms-full.txt
For the full expansion of every currently-active giveaway —
title, URL, deadline, country, US state(s), category, sponsor —
fetch:
  https://ilovegiveaways.com/llms-full.txt

## Contact
- Website: https://ilovegiveaways.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ILoveGiveaways
- Telegram: https://t.me/ilovegiveaways