# robots.txt for MyCPACRM
# Updated 2026-05-02 — explicit AI bot directives for AI-search optimization

# Default: allow all standard crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Search engine crawlers (explicit allow for clarity)
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# AI bot directives (explicit allow — we WANT AI search visibility)

# OpenAI (powers ChatGPT, ChatGPT Search, custom GPTs)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Anthropic (powers Claude, Claude.ai)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Common Crawl (corpus used by many LLM training datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Google AI (separate from regular Googlebot — controls Gemini/AI Overview training)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Meta AI
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Microsoft Copilot / Bing AI
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo (DuckAssist uses Anthropic + others)
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Mistral AI
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# YouBot (You.com)
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /hangfire/

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.mycpacrm.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mycpacrm.com/sitemap.html