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# Growo — usegrowo.com
# Robots.txt — Last updated: 2026-04-25
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# ── Traditional search engines ──
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# ── Default rule for all other bots ──
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# ── AI Search & Retrieval bots — ALLOWED ──
# These power real-time AI search results and citations.
# Allowing them ensures Growo appears in AI-powered answers.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# ── AI Training bots — BLOCKED ──
# These scrape content for model training datasets.
# Blocking protects original content from unauthorized training.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

# ── Sitemaps ──
Sitemap: https://usegrowo.com/sitemap.xml

# ── LLM Content Index ──
# Structured content guide for AI agents: https://usegrowo.com/llms.txt