# ===================================================== # robots.txt — The Maths Society (mathsociety.org.uk) # Strategy: Allow AI Search bots (citations/traffic) # Block AI Training bots (scraping only) # ===================================================== # --- DEFAULT RULE: Allow all standard crawlers --- User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /admin Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /privatewhatsapp Disallow: /admin/whatsapp Disallow: /survey/ Disallow: /confirmation/ Disallow: /tuition-thank-you Disallow: /tuitionregistration Disallow: /codingregistration Disallow: /homework Disallow: /review/ Disallow: /portal/ Disallow: /portal Disallow: /auth/ Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /verify-email Disallow: /parent-access/ Disallow: /signup Disallow: /pupilsignup Disallow: /login Disallow: /magic-link Disallow: /forgot-password Disallow: /teacher Disallow: /teacher/ # --- 1. ALLOW: AI Search & Citation Bots --- User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / User-agent: Google-InspectionTool Allow: / User-agent: Twitterbot Allow: / User-agent: facebookexternalhit Allow: / User-agent: LinkedInBot Allow: / # --- 2. BLOCK: AI Model Training Bots --- User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / # --- 3. SITEMAP --- Sitemap: https://www.mathsociety.org.uk/sitemap.xml