# robots.txt for https://ticketly.co.ke
# Last updated: 2025-10-08
# Purpose: Allow search engines to crawl public content while blocking sensitive or duplicate URLs.

User-agent: *
# --- Allow all main public routes ---
Allow: /
Allow: /about/
Allow: /contact/
Allow: /events/
Allow: /terms/
Allow: /privacy/

# --- Disallow private and irrelevant routes ---
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /forgot-password/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?token=*
Disallow: /*?session=*

# --- Sitemap & Crawl Hints ---
Sitemap: https://ticketly.co.ke/sitemap.xml

# --- Crawl-delay for non-Google bots to avoid overloading ---
User-agent: Bingbot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Yandex
Crawl-delay: 10

# --- Special instructions ---
# Encourage Googlebot to index event pages more frequently.
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /about/
Allow: /terms/
Allow: /privacy/
Allow: /events/
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /auth/
Crawl-delay: 2

# --- Social media bots (for better link previews) ---
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookExternalHit
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

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