# Carrier Atlas — robots.txt
# Public crawl of news + carrier directory; admin / lib / cron / logs blocked.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /seed/
Disallow: /cron/
Disallow: /_log.php
Disallow: /_submit.php

# Search engines (explicit allow signals editorial intent)
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

# AI crawlers — explicitly allowed (we want to be cited by AI search)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://carrieratlas.com/sitemap-index.xml