# Uncle Bob Classical Guitar Lessons — robots.txt # Updated: 2026-07-08 — Balanced search + AI discovery (see LEAD_GENERATOR/AI_CRAWLER_UPDATE.md) # Allow: Google, Bing, Apple Search/Siri, ChatGPT Search, ChatGPT-User (live URL fetch), Perplexity, Copilot (public pages) # Block: AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.) and aggressive scrapers # ======================================== # PRIVATE PATHS (shared by allowed crawlers) # ======================================== # Disallow: /api/ # Disallow: /dashboard # Disallow: /admin # Disallow: /level/ # Disallow: /student # Disallow: /auth/ # Disallow: /verify-email # Disallow: /reset-password # Disallow: /forgot-password # ======================================== # SEARCH & AI DISCOVERY — ALLOW (public marketing) # ======================================== User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password User-agent: Applebot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password User-agent: Copilot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password # ChatGPT-User fetches a URL when a user asks ChatGPT to read a page — public marketing only (not training). User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password # ======================================== # AI TRAINING & HIGH-RISK SCRAPERS — BLOCK # ======================================== User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleOther Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher Disallow: / User-agent: xai-grok Disallow: / User-agent: Grok Disallow: / User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: / User-agent: MistralBot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / User-agent: Omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: AI2Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma Disallow: / User-agent: Scrapy Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: DataForSeoBot Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: ImagesiftBot Disallow: / User-agent: img2dataset Disallow: / User-agent: ICC-Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: Kangaroo Bot Disallow: / User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot Disallow: / User-agent: FriendlyCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Nicecrawler Disallow: / User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Seekr Disallow: / User-agent: Webzio-Extended Disallow: / # ======================================== # DEFAULT — conservative (other bots) # ======================================== User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /dashboard Disallow: /admin Disallow: /level/ Disallow: /student Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /forgot-password Sitemap: https://unclebobguitarlessons.com/sitemap.xml