# === PRIMARY AI ASSISTANTS & TRAINING (allow - essential for visibility) === # Claude/Anthropic User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: / # OpenAI - Training & Search User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / # Perplexity AI User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / # Google - Gemini & Vertex AI User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research Allow: / User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Allow: / # Grok (xAI) User-agent: GrokBot Allow: / # === AI SEARCH ENGINES (allow - great for organic reach) === # You.com User-agent: YouBot Allow: / # Phind User-agent: PhindBot Allow: / # Exa AI User-agent: ExaBot Allow: / # Andi User-agent: AndiBot Allow: / # DuckDuckGo DuckAssist User-agent: DuckAssistBot Allow: / # === AI MODEL TRAINING PLATFORMS === # Common Crawl User-agent: CCBot Allow: / # Amazon/Bedrock User-agent: bedrockbot Allow: / # Mistral AI User-agent: MistralAI-User Allow: / # Cohere User-agent: cohere-ai Allow: / User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler Allow: / # AI2 (Allen Institute) User-agent: AI2Bot Allow: / User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma Allow: / # Meta/Facebook AI User-agent: meta-externalagent Allow: / User-agent: meta-externalfetcher Allow: / # === WEB CRAWLING & CONTENT EXTRACTION === User-agent: FirecrawlAgent Allow: / User-agent: Diffbot Allow: / # === APPLE INTELLIGENCE === User-agent: Applebot Allow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: / # === SPECIALIZED AI TOOLS === # ByteDance (TikTok/Douyin) User-agent: Bytespider Allow: / # Image search & analysis User-agent: ImagesiftBot Allow: / # Research crawlers User-agent: omgili Allow: / User-agent: omgilibot Allow: / User-agent: webzio-extended Allow: / # Data extraction for AI User-agent: img2dataset Allow: / # === Search engines === User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-News Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Video Allow: / User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Allow: / User-agent: AdsBot-Google Allow: / User-agent: bingbot Allow: / User-agent: BingPreview Allow: / User-agent: msnbot Allow: / User-agent: msnbot-media Allow: / User-agent: adidxbot Allow: / User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: / User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp Allow: / # === Social media preview bots === User-agent: Twitterbot Allow: / User-agent: facebookexternalhit Allow: / User-agent: LinkedInBot Allow: / User-agent: Slackbot Allow: / User-agent: WhatsApp Allow: / User-agent: TelegramBot Allow: / User-agent: redditbot Allow: / User-agent: Pinterest Allow: / # === Archive === User-agent: archive.org_bot Allow: / # === SEO tools - throttled or blocked === User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot-BA Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: / User-agent: PiplBot Disallow: / # === Regional search engines (block if no traffic from there) === User-agent: yandex Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / # === Default: block everything else === User-agent: * Disallow: