# robots.txt for anshulrana.in
# Anshul Rana - SEO, AEO & GEO Expert

# Standard search engine crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

# AI crawlers - explicitly allowed for AEO/GEO visibility
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

# Block poor-reputation crawlers with high crawl-budget cost
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# General fallback - allow all
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /includes/

# Block non-public directories
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /tmp/

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://anshulrana.in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://anshulrana.in/llms.txt