# See https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /setup-account-confirmation
Disallow: /membership-confirmation
Disallow: /get-started/success/
Disallow: /get-started/account-setup/
Disallow: /get-started/sign-in/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /webhooks
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /purchases
User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /

# AI search engine crawlers — explicitly allow
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Sitemap location (dynamically generated by Rails)
Sitemap: https://www.createacademy.com/sitemap.xml