# robots.txt for ask-maeve.com

# Allow major search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

# Allow AI assistants (for recommendations and citations)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

# Allow Ahrefs (used for your own SEO monitoring)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /

# Block other SEO scrapers (competitors' tools)
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

# Block pure AI training crawlers (no user-facing benefit)
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

# Default rule for other bots
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# AI info
# llms.txt: https://www.ask-maeve.com/llms.txt

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.ask-maeve.com/sitemap-index.xml