User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Private / backend pages — no crawling
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /employer/dashboard
Disallow: /jobseeker/dashboard
Disallow: /profile-edit
Disallow: /action-handler
Disallow: /email-verified
Disallow: /forgot-password

# Prevent crawling parameterized URLs (search queries, referral tags, UTM params)
# These waste crawl budget — canonical tags already point to the clean URL
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?loc=
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*?type=
Disallow: /*?mode=
Disallow: /*?level=

# ── AI Search Bots ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Allow AI-powered search engines to index DFWITJobs content.
# This ensures job listings appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Grok,
# and other AI-powered search and browsing experiences.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

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