# robots.txt for https://www.apexmatch.com

# Allow all crawlers full access
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# AI search crawlers (explicit allow for citation eligibility)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Block Common Crawl (AI training data harvester, not a search bot)
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.apexmatch.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apexmatch.com/image-sitemap.xml