# robots.txt for easybudgetplanners.com

# ── Allow legitimate search engines and social media bots ───────
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

# ── Allow AI search assistants ──────────────────────────────────
# Surfacing in ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini search answers is good for
# discovery, so we explicitly allow these rather than relying on
# default-allow.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# ── Block bulk AI training scrapers we don't want crawling ──────
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

# ── Block aggressive SEO crawlers ───────────────────────────────
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

# ── Block other scrapers and unwanted bots ──────────────────────
User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /

# ── Allow Internet Archive for historical preservation ──────────
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

# ── Default for unlisted bots ───────────────────────────────────
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://easybudgetplanners.com/sitemap.xml