# AiDASH robots.txt — AI Answer Engines friendly; training opt-out
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# WordPress basics
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.aidash.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.aidash.com/sitemap.xml

# --- AI Answer Engines (allow) ---
# OpenAI Search (SearchGPT)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
# ChatGPT on-behalf fetcher (user-initiated)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Perplexity search crawler
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
# Perplexity on-behalf fetcher (user-initiated)*
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic web search & on-behalf fetcher
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# Main search engines that power AI answers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# --- AI model-training crawlers (block) ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

# --- Courtesy crawl throttles (some bots honor these) ---
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Crawl-delay: 5
User-agent: CCBot
Crawl-delay: 10