# DeFiMara - Robots.txt
# Updated: October 2026
# Allow all search engines and AI crawlers to index the site

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# Global rules
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /_next/

# Public content paths
Allow: /doc/
Allow: /privacy/
Allow: /terms/
Allow: /security/

# /blog/ redirects to /doc/ — minimal crawl budget needed
Disallow: /blog/

# Block sensitive/internal paths
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /out/

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# Major search engines
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Allow: /_next/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /blog/

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# AI search and citation crawlers (explicitly allowed for AI-SEO)
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User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

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# SEO tool crawlers: Ahrefs/Semrush allowed (backlink discovery, free site audits);
# low-value scrapers blocked
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User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

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# Sitemap
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Sitemap: https://www.defimara.com/sitemap.xml