# robots.txt — ramishaheen.cloud
# Strategy: maximise discoverability via search engines AND AI answer engines.
# AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Bing Copilot, You.com, etc.)
# are meaningful traffic & citation sources — we explicitly allow them.

# ─── Default: allow all crawlers on public pages ───
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /llms-full.txt
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin.html

# ─── Google bots ───
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

# ─── Bing / Microsoft ───
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

# ─── OpenAI bots ───
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# ─── Anthropic / Claude ───
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

# ─── Perplexity ───
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# ─── Apple ───
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# ─── Other AI answer engines ───
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# ─── Sitemap reference ───
Sitemap: https://ramishaheen.cloud/sitemap.xml

# ─── Host hint ───
Host: https://ramishaheen.cloud