# Smart BDM - Robots.txt Configuration
# Generated: 2026-02-11T07:22:14.112Z

# Allow all crawlers to access the site
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block access to authentication and admin areas
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /cms/

# Block access to temporary and cache files
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /_next/

# Rate limiting for crawlers to prevent server overload
Crawl-delay: 1

# Specific rules for major search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /cms/
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /cms/
Disallow: /admin/

# Block aggressive SEO crawlers that may impact performance
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /


# Static pages sitemap
Sitemap: https://blog.smartbdm.ai/sitemap.xml

# Dynamic blog content sitemap
Sitemap: https://blog.smartbdm.ai/sitemap-dynamic.xml

# Host directive for canonical domain
Host: https://blog.smartbdm.ai