# ---------- Search engines ----------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# ---------- AI assistants / answer engines (send referral traffic & citations) ----------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

# ---------- SEO / marketing scrapers (no user benefit, only harvest data) ----------
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

# ---------- Everything else: allow by default ----------
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ---------- Sitemap ----------
Sitemap: https://nicolaharding.com/sitemap.xml