# ===========================
# Core search engines + AI bots
# ===========================
User-agent: *
# Trim low-value / high-volume URLs
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /?*

# Allow everything else for SEO + AI visibility
Allow: /

# Explicitly allow major AI crawlers (for AI visibility)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# ===========================
# Block high-bandwidth SEO scrapers
# (no SEO benefit, just noise)
# ===========================
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SEOkicks-Robot
Disallow: /

User-agent: spbot
Disallow: /

# ===========================
# Sitemap
# ===========================
Sitemap: https://www.lexer.io/sitemap.xml


Sitemap: https://www.lexer.io/sitemap.xml