# robots.txt — advertisingforcontractors.com
# Updated 2026-08-15

# Search engines — everything is open.
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# AI crawlers and assistants, named explicitly.
# We want to be readable by these. Being cited in an AI answer is
# a visibility channel, and blocking them by default removes a
# business from it entirely while every other metric looks normal.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: omgili
Allow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

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