# https://www.varticas.com/robots.txt
# Allow search engines, social-share crawlers, and AI indexers full access
# to public pages while protecting authenticated routes.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow authenticated / non-public surfaces
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /redirecting
Disallow: /api/

# Explicitly allow major bots (some respect per-agent blocks defined elsewhere)
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# AI / LLM crawlers — allow public content for discoverability
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Crawl politeness
Crawl-delay: 1

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.varticas.com/sitemap.xml