# robots.txt for https://cheapcannabiscard.com
# Affordable medical marijuana card evaluations, renewals, and doctors.
#
# Policy: OPEN. Every legitimate crawler is welcome - traditional search
# engines, SEO tools, AI search/retrieval crawlers, AND AI training crawlers.
# We want to be indexed for classic Search AND cited by AI answer engines.
#
# Note: robots.txt groups do NOT inherit. Each named group below is allowed
# explicitly so there is zero ambiguity for any operator that reads its own
# user-agent group first.

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

# ===========================================
# AI SEARCH / RETRIEVAL CRAWLERS (drive citations + referral traffic)
# ===========================================
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# ===========================================
# AI TRAINING CRAWLERS (allowed - we want broad model coverage)
# ===========================================
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# ===========================================
# SITEMAP
# ===========================================
Sitemap: https://cheapcannabiscard.com/sitemap.xml