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# Evetech (Pty) Ltd - robots.txt
# https://www.evetech.co.za
# Last Updated: April 2026
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Universal blocks - private, legacy, and utility paths
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /PC-Hardware/
Disallow: /Computer-systems/
Disallow: /WebResource.axd
Disallow: /mobile/reviews.aspx
Disallow: /mobile/WriteAReview.aspx
Disallow: /price-match.aspx
Disallow: /mobile/price-match.aspx
Disallow: /mobile/AskAQuestion.aspx
Disallow: /notify-me.aspx
Disallow: /mobile/TellAFriend.aspx
Disallow: /Gallery.aspx/
Disallow: /default.aspx/
Disallow: /n/

# Allow sitemap through /api/ block
Allow: /api/sitemap

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# Major Search Engines
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Shopping
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: AdIdxBot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

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# AI Crawlers - Full Access
# Strategy: Maximum AI visibility
# for product discovery & citation
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# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

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

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /

# Apple AI
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

# xAI (Grok)
User-agent: GrokBot
Allow: /

# Mistral AI
User-agent: MistralBot
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo AI
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

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

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

# Common Crawl (open dataset, feeds many AI models)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Generic AI crawler identifier
User-agent: ai-crawler
Allow: /

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# Social Media & Commerce
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User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

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# Blocked Bots
# SEO scrapers, data harvesters,
# image scrapers, content aggregators
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# SEO data scrapers
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# Huawei / unwanted crawlers
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AspiegelBot
Disallow: /

# Image dataset scrapers
User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

# Content aggregators
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /

# Plagiarism checker (irrelevant)
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

# ByteDance (aggressive AI training scraper)
User-agent: ByteSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

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# Sitemap & Host
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Sitemap: https://www.evetech.co.za/api/sitemap

Host: https://www.evetech.co.za

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# LLM Content Files
# Structured content for AI systems
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# llms.txt: https://www.evetech.co.za/llms.txt
# llms-full.txt: https://www.evetech.co.za/llms-full.txt