# robots.txt for Apps2Grow - AI-Powered Marketing Tools & Lead Generation
# https://apps2grow.com/robots.txt

# Allow all legitimate search engines to crawl the site
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /unsubscribe
Crawl-delay: 1

# Google - explicitly allowed for maximum visibility
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 1

# Bing - explicitly allowed
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# DuckDuckGo - explicitly allowed
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Yahoo - explicitly allowed
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Yandex - explicitly allowed
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Baidu - explicitly allowed
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# SEMrush - ALLOWED for SEO analysis and monitoring
User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Ahrefs - ALLOWED for SEO analysis and backlink monitoring
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# MJ12bot - ALLOWED for search indexing
User-agent: MJ12bot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# DotBot - ALLOWED for search indexing
User-agent: DotBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# BLEXBot - ALLOWED for search indexing
User-agent: BLEXBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# DataForSeoBot - ALLOWED for SEO analysis
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# AI Crawlers — explicitly allowed for AI search optimization
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

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

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

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

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /

# Google AI (Gemini, AI Overviews, Bard) — explicitly allowed
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

# Apple Intelligence / Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Meta AI (Llama, Meta AI assistant)
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# ByteDance / TikTok AI
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Amazon Alexa / Diffbot
User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# Mistral AI
User-agent: MistralBot
Allow: /

# Common AI research crawlers
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://apps2grow.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apps2grow.com/sitemap.xml

# AI-readable content index
# See https://apps2grow.com/llms.txt for AI-optimized site summary