# Duke Contractors — robots.txt (Rank Math managed)
# Last updated 2026-05-02

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# AI search crawlers — explicitly allow (visibility in ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity / Google AI Overviews / Apple Intelligence / Meta AI)
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: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Block aggressive third-party SEO scrapers
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://dukecontractors.net/sitemap_index.xml