# Simplify Money — robots.txt
# Strategy: explicitly allow major web + AI crawlers. No accidental blanket disallows.
# Last updated: 2026-04-29

# Default — allow everything for any well-behaved crawler
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /*?utm_*

# --- Major search engines ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

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

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

# --- AI training + answer engine crawlers (explicit Allow) ---
# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Google AI / Gemini
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (training data feed for many models)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Apple
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Meta / Facebook
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

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

# Cohere / DiffBot / others
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# --- Sitemaps ---
Sitemap: https://simplifymoney.in/sitemap.xml