# Block the admin surface from every crawler. Everything else is open.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Search-engine + audit bots
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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

User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: GTmetrix
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# AI assistant + LLM crawlers
# Allowed so A Plus Charge can be cited in AI-generated answers (ChatGPT,
# Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot). Blocking these means the platform
# can't cite us — opposite of what we want for AI visibility.
# Reference: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots, https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/claudebot
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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

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

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

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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

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

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

# CCBot (Common Crawl) is the dataset used for LLM training. Allow so
# our brand context lands in the next training cut; remove this block if
# you ever want to opt out of model training while keeping live citation.
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Sitemap + LLM context file
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sitemap: https://www.apluscharge.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apluscharge.com/sitemap-pages.xml
Sitemap: https://www.apluscharge.com/sitemap-blog.xml

# llms.txt advertises a fact-dense AI summary at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.
# Not a formal robots directive — read by AI agents that look for it.
LLM-Context: https://www.apluscharge.com/llms.txt
LLM-Context-Full: https://www.apluscharge.com/llms-full.txt