# AEORegistry AI Access Policy
# Public structured data (AEO pages, JSON-LD feeds, verification endpoints)
# may be crawled by authorized AI crawlers for indexing and answer generation.
# Unauthorized scraping of private or rate-limited endpoints is prohibited.

# ✅ Primary search crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# ✅ AI and answer engine crawlers
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /api/
Allow: /aeo/
Allow: /verify/
Allow: /feed/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# ⚙️ Optional / low-value crawlers (monitor before allowing heavy crawl)
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NovellumAI
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProRataInc
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Anchor Browser
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://aeoregistry.com/sitemap.xml