User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block admin and private areas
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /subscribe/

# Block development and testing areas
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /beta/

# Block search and filter pages
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /filter?
Disallow: /sort?

# Block temporary and cache files
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /tmp/

# Block user-generated content areas that might be private
Disallow: /uploads/private/
Disallow: /user-content/

# Allow important bots with specific rules
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

# Block aggressive crawlers
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

# Sitemap locations
Sitemap: https://geeksgrow.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://geeksgrow.com/sitemap_tools.xml
Sitemap: https://geeksgrow.com/sitemap_blog.xml
Sitemap: https://geeksgrow.com/sitemap_portfolio.xml

# Host
Host: https://geeksgrow.com