# EchoLeads.ai — robots.txt
# Last updated: 2026-06-01

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# Standard search engine crawlers
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /api/cms/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

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# OpenAI — citation bots (MUST allow for ChatGPT answers)
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User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

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# Anthropic / Claude — citation bots
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User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

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# Perplexity — citation bot
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User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

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# Google AI (Gemini training + AI Overviews)
# -----------------------------------------------

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

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# Apple Intelligence
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User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

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# Block aggressive scrapers that ignore disallow rules
# (Bytespider ignores robots.txt — block at server/CDN level too)
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User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

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# Default: allow all unlisted bots, block private paths
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

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# Sitemaps
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Sitemap: https://echoleads.ai/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://echoleads.ai/sitemap.rss

Host: https://echoleads.ai