# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # 🤖 PROMETHEUS SEO ENGINE - ROBOTS.TXT # ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # # Intelligent crawler rules that maximize SEO while protecting sensitive data. # This file tells search engines what they can and cannot index. # # ARCHITECTURE: # - Allow all major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo) # - Block aggressive bots and scrapers # - Protect private pages (admin, auth, API) # - Rate limit to prevent server overload # - Provide sitemap location for indexing # # @author THE ARCHITECT (NASA-Level Engineering) # @version 1.0.0 - INDUSTRY LEADING # ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # UNIVERSAL RULES (All Bots) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ User-agent: * # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # ALLOWED PATHS (Let search engines index these) # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Allow: / Allow: /store/ Allow: /store/products/ Allow: /user/ Allow: /podcast/ Allow: /music/ Allow: /groups/ Allow: /share/ Allow: /pray/ # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # BLOCKED PATHS (Keep these private) # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Authentication & Security Disallow: /login Disallow: /register Disallow: /reset-password Disallow: /verify-email # Admin & Dashboard Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /admin-store Disallow: /admin-podcasts Disallow: /admin-dashboard Disallow: /commission-dashboard Disallow: /seller-wallet Disallow: /data-warehouse-dashboard # Private User Pages Disallow: /edit-profile Disallow: /edit-external-links # API Endpoints (don't index these) Disallow: /api/ # Internal Pages Disallow: /search Disallow: /discover-users # Payment & Checkout (sensitive) Disallow: /store-payment-success Disallow: /checkout # Testing & Dev (if any) Disallow: /test Disallow: /dev Disallow: /_next/ Disallow: /static/ # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # FILE TYPES TO IGNORE # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Disallow: /*.json$ Disallow: /*.xml$ Disallow: /*.js$ Disallow: /*.css$ Disallow: /*.map$ # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # GOOGLEBOT SPECIFIC RULES (The Most Important Bot) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /login # Allow Google to index images (important for image search) User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /images/ Allow: /uploads/ Allow: /assets/ # Allow Google to index videos (for video search) User-agent: Googlebot-Video Allow: /videos/ Allow: /uploads/ # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # BINGBOT RULES (Microsoft Search) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /api/ Crawl-delay: 1 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # SOCIAL MEDIA BOTS (For Rich Previews) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # Facebook/Meta Bot User-agent: facebookexternalhit Allow: / Allow: /store/products/ Allow: /user/ Allow: /podcast/ Allow: /music/ Allow: /share/ # Twitter Bot (X Bot) User-agent: Twitterbot Allow: / Allow: /store/products/ Allow: /user/ Allow: /podcast/ Allow: /music/ Allow: /share/ # WhatsApp Bot User-agent: WhatsApp Allow: / Allow: /store/products/ Allow: /user/ Allow: /share/ # Telegram Bot User-agent: TelegramBot Allow: / Allow: /store/products/ Allow: /user/ Allow: /share/ # LinkedIn Bot User-agent: LinkedInBot Allow: / Allow: /store/products/ Allow: /user/ Allow: /share/ # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # BAD BOTS (Block Aggressive Scrapers) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # Block known bad bots User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: DotBot Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: YandexBot Crawl-delay: 5 # Block AI training scrapers (protect your content) User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # SITEMAP LOCATION (THE MOST IMPORTANT LINE!) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # Tell search engines where to find your sitemap Sitemap: https://sanctuaryfaith.org/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://sanctuaryfaith.org/sitemap-images.xml Sitemap: https://sanctuaryfaith.org/sitemap-videos.xml Sitemap: https://sanctuaryfaith.org/prayers-sitemap.xml # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # CRAWL RATE LIMITS (Prevent Server Overload) # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # Default crawl delay for all bots (1 second between requests) Crawl-delay: 1 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # NOTES FOR FUTURE # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # This robots.txt is designed to: # 1. ✅ Allow indexing of all public content # 2. ✅ Block private/sensitive pages # 3. ✅ Enable social media rich previews # 4. ✅ Prevent aggressive scraping # 5. ✅ Protect user data and admin areas # 6. ✅ Provide sitemap for efficient indexing # 7. ✅ Rate limit to protect server resources # Update this file when you add: # - New admin pages # - New API endpoints # - New private sections # - New public content areas # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # END OF FILE # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════