# Persist Marketing - persistmarketing.com

# Standard search engine crawlers and all other bots
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /privacy-policy/
Disallow: /terms/

# AI crawlers - explicitly allowed for content discovery and AI search
# Strategy: allow training and retrieval (positions Persist Marketing for GEO visibility)
# Verified against official vendor docs, June 2026

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Google AI (Gemini, Vertex)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# ByteDance (TikTok, Doubao)
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (used by many AI training pipelines)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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