# SEO Mastery — robots.txt
# Public, free, indexable. We want to be found.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Major search engines — explicitly welcomed
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# AI search crawlers — allowed (this site is open educational content)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Noisy / archival
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 5

Sitemap: https://seo-mastery.dev/sitemap-index.xml