# robots.txt — AdvertisingMCP
# https://www.advertisingmcp.net/robots.txt
# Policy: allow all crawlers including AI training bots — broader AI awareness is valuable for a small commercial product.
# Only dashboard/admin paths (which require login and have no public value) are excluded.

# ── Standard search engines ───────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# ── AI answer / retrieval crawlers (allow — these drive AI citations) ─
# Anthropic ClaudeBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# OpenAI search (not training)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# Google AI (Gemini / AI Overviews)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# Meta AI
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# ── AI training crawlers (allow — visibility in future models is valuable) ─
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /dashboard-mcp-settings
Disallow: /dashboard-agency-setup
Disallow: /subscribe
Disallow: /adminlogs

# ── Sitemap ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Sitemap: https://www.advertisingmcp.net/sitemap.xml