# Google Ads bot (required for ads approval)
# Block /blogs/* from AdsBot so ad-policy review doesn't see organic blog content
# (blogs may discuss AI-detection topics in educational framing for SEO; ads policy is stricter)
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /blogs/
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Disallow: /blogs/
Allow: /

# AI Search User Agents (AEO whitelist)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

# Googlebot rules — allow crawling of CSS/JS/fonts for proper rendering
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /

# All other bots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /upgrade
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*_buildManifest.js$
Disallow: /*_middlewareManifest.js$
Disallow: /*_ssgManifest.js$

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.getconch.ai/sitemap.xml