# -- SEO Tool Crawlers - BLOCK --
# Prevents competitors from scraping SEO metrics
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# -- AI & Chat Bots - ALLOW --
# Explicit opt-in signal for AI answer engines / agents (belt-and-suspenders on top of the
# wildcard Allow — some crawlers are starting to look for explicit allow rules)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /