# GrowSolo Business Management Platform - Robots.txt
# This file tells search engines which pages they can and cannot crawl

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /home
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /services
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /business
Disallow: /clients
Disallow: /requests
Disallow: /quotes
Disallow: /jobs
Disallow: /schedule
Disallow: /invoices
Disallow: /expenses
Disallow: /referrals
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /p/*/portal
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /register?*
Disallow: /forgot-password

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://growsolo.online/sitemap-index.xml

# Crawl delay to be respectful to our servers
Crawl-delay: 1

# Specific rules for different bots
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /home
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /services
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /business
Disallow: /clients
Disallow: /requests
Disallow: /quotes
Disallow: /jobs
Disallow: /schedule
Disallow: /invoices
Disallow: /expenses
Disallow: /referrals
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /p/*/portal
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /register?*
Disallow: /forgot-password

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /home
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /services
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /business
Disallow: /clients
Disallow: /requests
Disallow: /quotes
Disallow: /jobs
Disallow: /schedule
Disallow: /invoices
Disallow: /expenses
Disallow: /referrals
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /p/*/portal
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /register?*
Disallow: /forgot-password

# Block AI training bots
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Public pages that should be crawled:
# - Landing page (/)
# - Static pages: /about, /privacy, /gdpr, /terms, /cookies, /contact, /pricing, /features, /faq
# - Note: /updates removed from sitemap as requested
# - Blog pages: /blog, /blog/:slug, /blog/tag/:tag, /blog/category/:category
# - Service provider pages: /appliance-repair, /auto-detailing, /carpentry, /cleaning, /electrical-contracting, /hvac, /landscaping, /painting, /plumbing, /roofing
# - Feature pages: /client-management, /job-scheduling, /invoicing, /expense-tracking
# - Language variants: /en/*, /es/*
# - Public business profiles: /p/:subdomain (but not /p/*/portal)
# - Auth pages: /login, /register (indexed for better UX)
# - Note: /forgot-password and parameterized URLs excluded from indexing