# AI crawlers — explicitly allowed for AEO (answer engine optimization)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot-User
Allow: /

# SEO scrapers — not welcome
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Googlebot only (VSMS-1283). Googlebot obeys ONLY its most specific group, so
# this group repeats every User-agent: * rule verbatim, then adds one thing: the
# ~19.8k localized combo shells /<locale>/buy/<service>/<country> (noindex, never
# indexable) that took 54% of Googlebot fetches in Sep 2026. Bingbot, AI crawlers
# and every other agent are NOT affected - they keep the User-agent: * group below.
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Allow: /buy/
Allow: /country/
Allow: /free-numbers
Allow: /receive-sms-online
Allow: /daisysms-alternative
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /verifications
Allow: /activations
Allow: /rentals
Allow: /my-numbers
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /balance-history
Disallow: /alerts
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /api/v1/
Disallow: /ops-
Disallow: /ru/buy/*/*
Disallow: /zh/buy/*/*
Disallow: /es/buy/*/*
Disallow: /tr/buy/*/*
Disallow: /hi/buy/*/*
Disallow: /fr/buy/*/*
Disallow: /pt/buy/*/*

# General crawlers — allow public pages, block private surfaces
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /buy/
Allow: /country/
Allow: /free-numbers
Allow: /receive-sms-online
Allow: /daisysms-alternative
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /verifications
Allow: /activations
Allow: /rentals
Allow: /my-numbers
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /balance-history
Disallow: /alerts
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /api/v1/
Disallow: /ops-

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