# Robots.txt for ++tutors
# https://www.plusplustutors.com

# Allow all crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow admin and dashboard areas
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/data/
Allow: /_next/static/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /api/auth/
# Internal test pages only — /test-prep is a real product section and must stay crawlable
Disallow: /test-ibdocs
Disallow: /test-resources-hub
Disallow: /test-shared-components
Disallow: /test-success-stories
Disallow: /test-tracking
Disallow: /test-utility-components
Disallow: /demo/
Disallow: /emails/preview/

# Allow important API endpoints and feeds
Allow: /api/countries/
Allow: /api/usa/states/
Allow: /feed/products

# Crawl-delay for respectful crawling
Crawl-delay: 1

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.plusplustutors.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.plusplustutors.com/sitemap-locations.xml

# Special rules for major search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# SEO tools (ALLOW - needed for our own backlink/rank tracking)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Block bad bots
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# AI Search & Browsing bots (ALLOW - these return traffic to our site)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# OpenAI Ads bot - crawls landing pages for ChatGPT Ads quality review
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# AI Training-only bots (BLOCK - no referral value)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# LLM-readable site overview
Llms-txt: https://www.plusplustutors.com/llms.txt