# Shikshan Nivesh. Every public page is open to search engines, AI answer engines and AI
# crawlers, training ones included: we want the data read, quoted, cited and linked.
# A crawler follows only the group that names it, so each group repeats the private paths.
# Licence for the data: https://shikshannivesh.com/data/licence

# Search engines and link previews
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /data/follow
Disallow: /reset-password
Disallow: /payment/
Disallow: /founding/verify
Disallow: /subscription/verify

# AI answer engines and assistants fetching a page for a reader
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /data/follow
Disallow: /reset-password
Disallow: /payment/
Disallow: /founding/verify
Disallow: /subscription/verify

# AI training crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /data/follow
Disallow: /reset-password
Disallow: /payment/
Disallow: /founding/verify
Disallow: /subscription/verify

# Everyone else
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /data/follow
Disallow: /reset-password
Disallow: /payment/
Disallow: /founding/verify
Disallow: /subscription/verify

Sitemap: https://shikshannivesh.com/sitemap.xml