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- /insights/ is a reader-facing Coming soon page; developer cards removed - robots.txt: Disallow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent, Bytespider. Search and AI answer crawlers stay allowed. Corrects the old Google-Extended comment: it does not affect Search or AI Overviews. - e2e: assert the real headings and the header Services link (48/48)
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# BlueCap Strategies robots.txt — see docs/seo-aeo-optimization.md §5
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# Policy: allow classic search + AI answer/search crawlers for maximum discoverability and
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# answer-engine citation. Model-TRAINING crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, …) are BLOCKED (owner decision, 2026-10-23).
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# --- Classic search engines ---
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User-agent: Googlebot
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Allow: /
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User-agent: Bingbot
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Allow: /
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# --- AI answer / search crawlers (these can cite us and send referral traffic) ---
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User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
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Allow: /
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User-agent: ChatGPT-User
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Allow: /
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User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
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Allow: /
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User-agent: Claude-User
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Allow: /
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User-agent: PerplexityBot
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Allow: /
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# --- AI model-training crawlers — blocked (owner decision, 2026-10-23) ---
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User-agent: GPTBot
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Disallow: /
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User-agent: ClaudeBot
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Disallow: /
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User-agent: CCBot
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Disallow: /
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User-agent: Applebot-Extended
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Disallow: /
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User-agent: meta-externalagent
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Disallow: /
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User-agent: Bytespider
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Disallow: /
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# Google-Extended is Google's opt-out for Gemini training/grounding only. Google Search and AI
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# Overviews are governed by Googlebot (allowed above), so blocking this does not affect search.
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User-agent: Google-Extended
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Disallow: /
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# --- Everything else ---
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User-agent: *
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Allow: /
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# Note: non-compliant scrapers (e.g. Bytespider, stealth crawlers) ignore robots.txt; block those
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# at the Cloudflare edge, not here (see docs/gitops-deployment-strategy.md §4.2).
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Sitemap: https://www.bluecapstrategies.com/sitemap-index.xml
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