# robots.txt for midwesthyperbarics.com
# Squarespace generates a baseline robots.txt automatically; the directives
# below should be added in Settings → SEO → Crawler Configuration, or via the
# crawler-control feature in your Squarespace plan.
#
# AEO STRATEGY: explicitly welcome AI / answer-engine crawlers.
# Each of these bots has been observed citing wound care content from
# practices that allow them. Default Squarespace blocks none of them, but
# making the welcome explicit is good hygiene.
# ─── Standard search engines ───
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
# ─── AI / Answer-engine crawlers (welcomed) ───
# OpenAI (ChatGPT)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
# Google AI Overviews / Gemini
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
# Meta AI
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
# Common Crawl (foundational dataset for many LLMs)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
# Mistral
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
# ─── Default ───
User-agent: *
Allow: /
# ─── Sitemap ───