# TrainerConnect — robots policy
# Public discovery: home, terms, privacy, register, login, /t/{id}, /r/{id},
# /trainer/browse, /vendor/trainers. Everything else is disallowed.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /uploads/
Disallow: /errors/
Disallow: /secrets/

# Authenticated app routes (also marked noindex in HTML)
Disallow: /trainer/applications
Disallow: /trainer/availability
Disallow: /trainer/cover-templates
Disallow: /trainer/dashboard
Disallow: /trainer/messages
Disallow: /trainer/notifications
Disallow: /trainer/profile
Disallow: /trainer/profile-view
Disallow: /trainer/saved
Disallow: /trainer/settings
Disallow: /vendor/applications
Disallow: /vendor/dashboard
Disallow: /vendor/messages
Disallow: /vendor/notifications
Disallow: /vendor/post-requirement
Disallow: /vendor/profile
Disallow: /vendor/requirements
Disallow: /vendor/response-templates
Disallow: /vendor/saved
Disallow: /vendor/settings
Disallow: /vendor/trainer-view

# Sensitive auth flows
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password
Disallow: /verify-email
Disallow: /logout

# Public discovery surfaces
Allow: /trainer/browse
Allow: /vendor/trainers
Allow: /t/
Allow: /r/
Allow: /share/

# Avoid indexing query-param duplicates (sort, page, post-register banner)
Disallow: /*?*sort=
Disallow: /*?*page=
Disallow: /*&page=
Disallow: /*?welcome=1

# Major search engines — explicit allow
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# Block AI training scrapers
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

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