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# DentalInsurance.com - robots.txt
# Updated: September 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 + search/retrieval bots: allow everything except the paths below.
# A bot named in its own group ignores the "*" group entirely, so allowed
# bots must be listed here to pick up these Disallow rules.
User-agent: *
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /WebResource.axd
Disallow: /ScriptResource.axd
Disallow: /quoting
Disallow: /coverage/dentaly/

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

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

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

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

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /