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# robots.txt for connectiko.io
# Author: Connectiko SEO Team
# Last Updated: 2026-04-15
# Purpose: Allow crawlers, enable AI bots, block sensitive paths
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# Allow all well-behaved crawlers full access
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /card/*

# Major Search Engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# Social Media Crawlers
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

# OpenAI GPTBot (for ChatGPT training and search)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Allow: /card/*
Allow: /how-to/*
Allow: /use-cases
Allow: /faq

# ChatGPT User Agent (for ChatGPT web browsing)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Allow: /card/*

# Common Crawl (used by AI models for training)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Google's AI crawlers
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Anthropic Claude crawlers
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Disallow private/admin sections
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /server/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /uploads/

# Allow public QR code sharing pages
Allow: /qr/*

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.connectiko.io/sitemap.xml

# LLMs.txt (AI content discovery)
LLMs: https://www.connectiko.io/llms.txt