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# DentalInsurance.com - robots.txt
# Updated: April 2026
# Strategy: Allow search/retrieval bots, block training bots
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# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.dentalinsurance.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.dentalinsurance.com/feeds/plans-latest.xml

# Default: allow everything
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /WebResource.axd
Disallow: /ScriptResource.axd
Disallow: /quoting
Disallow: /coverage/dentaly/

# Google
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

# Block Google AI training (Gemini)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# Microsoft / Bing
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# Apple
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# OpenAI
# Block training crawler
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Allow live search/retrieval (ChatGPT answering questions)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic
# Allow retrieval (Claude answering questions)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

# Block training crawler
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Meta
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Training data scrapers - block
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /