# Capstone Outreach robots.txt
# Default-allow: every page is crawlable unless it matches a Disallow
# below. The blocked paths are all either gated behind auth (dashboard,
# contacts, scanner, etc.) or serve the SPA shell with no crawler-readable
# content (login, signup) — indexing those produces thin-content / soft-404
# signals that hurt the whole domain's ranking. Marketing and SEO content
# pages (the "/" landing, /privacy, and every extensionless guide the SEO
# cron keeps adding) need no per-page upkeep here — they are allowed by
# default, so new pages stay crawlable automatically.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /accept-invite
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /contacts
Disallow: /contacts/
Disallow: /scanner
Disallow: /my-card
Disallow: /pending-texts
Disallow: /prospecting
Disallow: /campaigns
Disallow: /campaigns/
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /organization
Disallow: /tutorial
Disallow: /assistant
Disallow: /connect
Disallow: /donor-match
Disallow: /drafts
Disallow: /meetings
Disallow: /re-engage
Disallow: /events
Disallow: /event-mode
Disallow: /pending-captures
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password

# AI answer-engine crawlers are explicitly welcome (GEO/AEO). Broad Allow with
# the same gated paths blocked, so every content page (current and future) is
# citable without per-page upkeep.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot/2.0
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /accept-invite
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /contacts
Disallow: /scanner
Disallow: /my-card
Disallow: /pending-texts
Disallow: /prospecting
Disallow: /campaigns
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /organization
Disallow: /tutorial
Disallow: /assistant
Disallow: /connect
Disallow: /donor-match
Disallow: /drafts
Disallow: /meetings
Disallow: /re-engage
Disallow: /events
Disallow: /event-mode
Disallow: /pending-captures
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password

Allow: /networking-follow-up-email-templates
Allow: /automated-follow-up-emails-gmail
Allow: /sales-follow-up-sequence
Allow: /how-many-times-to-follow-up-with-a-lead
Allow: /follow-up-email-after-meeting-someone
Allow: /follow-up-after-a-conference

Sitemap: https://www.capstoneoutreach.com/sitemap.xml