# robots.txt for emailverify.io
# Last updated: May 2026

# Default rules — all crawlers welcome on public pages
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /llms-full.txt

# Block unnecessary WordPress paths on the blog
Disallow: /blog/page/amp/
Disallow: /blog/feed
Disallow: /blog/feed/
Disallow: /blog/*/feed
Disallow: /blog/wp-admin/
Disallow: /blog/wp-includes/
Disallow: /blog/wp-login.php
Disallow: /blog/wp-register.php
Disallow: /blog/wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /blog/wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /blog/wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /blog/wp-json/
Disallow: /blog/*?s=
Disallow: /blog/search/

# Note: /blog/author/ is intentionally NOT blocked.
# Author archive pages are part of our E-E-A-T signal and should be crawled.

# Explicit allow rules for AI engine crawlers
# These are redundant with the User-agent: * Allow: / rule above,
# but stating them explicitly prevents WAF and security plugin
# misconfigurations from accidentally blocking these bots.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Mistralai-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.emailverify.io/sitemap.xml