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#  Hi. You opened a robots.txt on a personal site.
#  You're exactly who I'm hoping to work with.
#  - Vijay Srinivas, Organic Growth | SEO + AEO
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# AI crawlers: come on in. Getting cited is literally my job.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Search engines: also welcome. We go way back.
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# Recruiters and hiring managers
# (not a real user-agent, but you get the idea)
User-agent: Recruiter
Allow: /
Allow: /llms.txt
Disallow: /lowball-offers

# Everyone else
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# The machine-readable version of me lives here:
# https://vijaysrinivas.com/llms.txt

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