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# TaskAutomate - robots.txt
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# Default rules for all crawlers
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# /login and /signup were explicitly Allowed and are linked from the footer of
# all 31 blog posts, so they were crawled on every pass. They are auth forms:
# there is nothing on them to index, and every crawl of one is budget not spent
# on a page that could rank.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /documents
Disallow: /invoices
Disallow: /templates
Disallow: /workflows
Disallow: /automations
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /team
Disallow: /reports
Disallow: /super-admin

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# Google Crawlers
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /documents
Disallow: /invoices
Disallow: /templates
Disallow: /workflows
Disallow: /automations
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /team
Disallow: /reports
Disallow: /super-admin

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Storebot-Google
Allow: /

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# Bing / Microsoft Crawlers
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User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /documents
Disallow: /invoices
Disallow: /templates
Disallow: /workflows
Disallow: /automations
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /team
Disallow: /reports
Disallow: /super-admin

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

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# AI Search & LLM Crawlers
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# ChatGPT / OpenAI Search
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# ChatGPT browsing plugin
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# OpenAI training crawler (allow for visibility)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

# Google Gemini / AI Overviews
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# You.com AI search
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic Claude
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

# Cohere AI
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

# Apple / Siri
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Amazon Alexa
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# Baidu
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (used by many AI models)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Brave Search
User-agent: BraveBot
Allow: /

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# Social Media Crawlers
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User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

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# SEO & Analytics Tools
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User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Allow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Allow: /

User-agent: rogerbot
Allow: /

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# Sitemap
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Sitemap: https://taskautomate.io/sitemap.xml