# Smile Therapy robots.txt - clean SEO-safe version
# Platform: Shopify
# Last updated: July 2026
#
# Aim:
# 1) Allow normal crawling of products, collections, pages and blog content.
# 2) Block Shopify duplicate/low-value URLs that can waste crawl budget or create duplication.
# 3) Keep rules consistent for Google, Bing, AI search crawlers and default bots.
# 4) Block known training-only/aggressive crawlers with no clear traffic benefit.

# =========================================================
# MAIN ALLOWED CRAWLERS
# Search engines, AI citation/search bots, shopping bots and useful fetchers.
# IMPORTANT: keep this full duplicate-control block here.
# Do not create separate Googlebot/bingbot sections unless they repeat these same rules.
# =========================================================

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-image
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai

Allow: /

# Private / checkout / account areas
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /71577174323/checkouts
Disallow: /71577174323/orders
Disallow: /services/login_with_shop

# Shopify duplicate / parameter / faceted navigation controls
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*

# Blog duplicate tag/search style URLs
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*

# Shopify/system noise
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /apple-app-site-association
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products

# Shopify preview/session parameters
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls=*&ls=*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3D*%3Fls%3D*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3d*%3fls%3d*

# Remote/generated product duplicates
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote


# =========================================================
# SEO TOOLS / AUDIT BOTS
# Allowed but rate-limited and kept to the same duplicate controls.
# =========================================================

User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow: /
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /71577174323/checkouts
Disallow: /71577174323/orders
Disallow: /services/login_with_shop
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /apple-app-site-association
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls=*&ls=*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3D*%3Fls%3D*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3d*%3fls%3d*
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Pinterest
Crawl-delay: 1


# =========================================================
# BLOCKED TRAINING-ONLY / AGGRESSIVE / LOW-VALUE CRAWLERS
# These do not need access to the site.
# =========================================================

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /


# =========================================================
# DEFAULT FALLBACK FOR ALL OTHER BOTS
# Same duplicate controls as the main crawler group.
# =========================================================

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Private / checkout / account areas
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /71577174323/checkouts
Disallow: /71577174323/orders
Disallow: /services/login_with_shop

# Shopify duplicate / parameter / faceted navigation controls
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*

# Blog duplicate tag/search style URLs
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*

# Shopify/system noise
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /apple-app-site-association
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products

# Shopify preview/session parameters
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls=*&ls=*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3D*%3Fls%3D*
Disallow: /*/*?*ls%3d*%3fls%3d*

# Remote/generated product duplicates
Disallow: /products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote
Disallow: /*/collections/*/products/*-[a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9][a-f0-9]-remote


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