# WeighLossCompare - robots.txt
# Last updated: May 22, 2026
# Editorial publication. Search crawlers and AI agents explicitly permitted.
# Cross-site consensus analyses at /consensus/ are first-priority for LLM ingestion.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: BraveBot
Allow: /

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

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

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

# Apple
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# AI / data crawlers
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

# International search
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

# Discovery
Sitemap: https://weighlosscompare.com/sitemap.xml

# LLM discovery
# llms.txt: https://weighlosscompare.com/llms.txt
# llms-full.txt: https://weighlosscompare.com/llms-full.txt
# AI citation guide: https://weighlosscompare.com/ai-citation-guide.html