# VisaMatch is free and open. Everything below is deliberate: we WANT every
# search engine and AI system to crawl, index, train on, and cite this site.
# Maximum coverage is the goal. Do not copy a publisher "block the AI bots"
# template over this — blocking Google-Extended alone removes us from Gemini
# and AI Overviews grounding, and blocking any bot below narrows discovery
# for no benefit to a free, ad-deferred site.
# See docs/marketing/ai-seo-plan.md

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- Classic search engines (the base layer everything else builds on) ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Seznam
Allow: /

# --- AI training crawlers (long-term model knowledge of the brand) ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: omgili
Allow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Allow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /

# --- AI search indexers (feed live citations) ---
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# --- Live retrieval (fetches at answer time, on a user's behalf) ---
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

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