# FlipMerch robots.txt
# https://flipmerch.com
#
# Policy: allow all bots. Our competitive advantage is live pricing
# data from retailer scraping, not static page content. Every bot that
# indexes us is a potential discovery channel — AI search, social
# previews, voice assistants, future tools we can't predict.
#
# Bots that ignore robots.txt are handled by Cloudflare rate limiting.
#
# Changed 2026-05-07: removed per-bot blocks on GPTBot, CCBot,
# FacebookBot, Amazonbot, etc. The AI landscape is shifting too fast
# to predict which bots drive traffic. Blocking FacebookBot was
# breaking social link previews. Blocking GPTBot excluded us from
# ChatGPT answers. Better to be discoverable everywhere.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup

Sitemap: https://flipmerch.com/sitemap.xml