# RankEcho public crawl policy.
# Public access is an eligibility signal only; it is not proof of indexing, ranking, traffic, or AI citation.

# Search/index crawlers: access supports eligibility; it never guarantees indexing, ranking, or citation.
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /billing/

# User-directed fetchers: operators may handle these outside ordinary robots.txt crawling rules.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /billing/

# Separate training, grounding-data-use, and open-corpus controls; these are not search-ranking switches.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /billing/

# Default policy for every other crawler.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /billing/

Sitemap: https://rankecho.io/sitemap.xml