User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /subscribe/success
Disallow: /subscribe/cancel
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /404.html
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

Sitemap: https://elitedigitalagency.io/sitemap-index.xml

# IndexNow key verification
# https://www.indexnow.org/
# Key file: https://elitedigitalagency.io/850DE775884EECB55D97FF3043C19072.txt

# ── AI Search Crawlers — explicitly permitted ────────────────────────────────
# NOTE: robots.txt groups do NOT inherit directives from other groups, so the
# Content-Signal line is repeated in every group. Removing it from one group
# silently drops the signal for that bot.
# ChatGPT / OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Google Gemini / AI Overviews
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Anthropic / Claude
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Anthropic-AI
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Meta AI
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Perplexity user-triggered fetches
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Claude user-triggered fetches
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Mistral (Le Chat)
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# DuckDuckGo AI (DuckAssist)
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Amazon (Alexa / Rufus)
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# xAI Grok
User-agent: GrokBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Diffbot (AI knowledge graph)
User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Common Crawl (used for AI training datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Bytedance / ByteSpider
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Microsoft Copilot / Bing AI
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes