AEO-Optimized robots.txt Template

Use this robots.txt as a starting point for any site that wants to participate in AI citations. It explicitly allows the major AI crawlers and protects sensitive paths.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /webhooks/

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml