# Robots.txt for Flowlancerr.com
# Updated: May 13, 2026

# Allow all crawlers access to public content
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /alternatives/
Allow: /for/
Allow: /solutions

# Disallow ALL private/authenticated pages for security
Disallow: /dashboard*
Disallow: /projects*
Disallow: /clients*
Disallow: /invoices*
Disallow: /expenses*
Disallow: /time-tracking*
Disallow: /settings*
Disallow: /overview*
Disallow: /subscription*
Disallow: /admin*

# Disallow sensitive authentication pages
Disallow: /reset-password*
Disallow: /forgot-password*
Disallow: /login*
Disallow: /signup*
Disallow: /landing*

# Disallow technical/admin areas
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /node_modules/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /src/

# Canonical domain enforcement, always prefer www
# (handled via server-level 301 redirects; crawler hint)

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.flowlancerr.com/sitemap.xml

# Allow specific bot optimizations
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

# Block aggressive crawlers
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 5

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.flowlancerr.com/sitemap.xml