# Guidavera robots policy
# Strategy: GEO-first — allow AI search & training crawlers (visibility / citations).
# Block API/admin/auth surface area and known-bad SEO scrapers.

# ---------- Search engines ----------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Allow: /lists/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /saved
Disallow: /lists
Disallow: /uploads/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Allow: /lists/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /saved
Disallow: /lists
Disallow: /uploads/

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

# ---------- AI search & citation bots ----------
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: claude-web
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

# ---------- AI training bots (allowed for GEO visibility) ----------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /uploads/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /uploads/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /uploads/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /uploads/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/

# ---------- Blocked: SEO/data scrapers and high-volume nuisance bots ----------
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# ---------- Default ----------
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /saved
Disallow: /uploads/
# /community?mention=<slug> deep links to a single mention; the
# parameterless /community is canonical, so block crawling the param
# variants to avoid spending crawl budget on duplicates.
Disallow: /*?mention=
Crawl-delay: 5

Sitemap: https://guidavera.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://guidavera.com/news-sitemap.xml