# robots.txt for alestemple.net
# SEO Optimized - Google Best Practices
# Updated: January 22, 2026
# Professional Video Templates | VEGAS Pro, Movie Studio, Effects, LUTs

# ============================================
# STANDARD CRAWLERS - ALLOW PUBLIC CONTENT
# ============================================
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /images/
Allow: /css/
Allow: /js/
Allow: /video/
Allow: /download/

# Crawl delay optimization (1 second to reduce server load while maintaining crawl efficiency)
Crawl-delay: 1
Request-rate: 1/1s

# ============================================
# ADMIN & BACKEND - COMPLETELY DISALLOW
# ============================================

# Admin login page - PRIMARY EXCLUSION
Disallow: /admin-login.html

# Admin dashboard and management
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin-dashboard/
Disallow: /admin.js

# Backend services and APIs
Disallow: /backend/
Disallow: /api.php
Disallow: /app.js

# System and configuration directories
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /.well-known/
Disallow: /node_modules/

# Environment and temporary files
Disallow: /.env
Disallow: /.ftpquota
Disallow: /.htaccess
Disallow: /dist/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /test/

# Log and data files
Disallow: /*.env
Disallow: /*.log
Disallow: /*.json
Disallow: /*.csv

# Disallow email utility pages
Disallow: /unsubscribe.html
Disallow: /update-preferences.html

# ============================================
# SPECIFIC BOT RESTRICTIONS
# ============================================

# Aggressive crawlers - block entirely (competitive intelligence bots)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mojeek/0.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: BacklinkCrawler
Disallow: /

# ============================================
# MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES - FULL ACCESS
# ============================================

# Google crawlers - no delay
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /images/

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /video/

# Bing crawlers - no delay
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

# Other search engines
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

# ============================================
# SOCIAL MEDIA CRAWLERS - ALLOW
# ============================================

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: Pinterest
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

# ============================================
# MONITORING & ANALYTICS - ALLOW
# ============================================

User-agent: Uptime.com
Allow: /

User-agent: UptimeRobot
Allow: /

# ============================================
# SITEMAP REFERENCES - CRITICAL FOR SEO
# ============================================

Sitemap: https://alestemple.net/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://alestemple.net/sitemap-products.xml
Sitemap: https://alestemple.net/sitemap-images.xml
Sitemap: https://alestemple.net/sitemap-videos.xml