# Nichy AI — robots.txt
# We want every reputable search engine to index the public marketing pages
# and content surfaces (FAQs, Tips, Formulas, 11+ Practice Papers, Online Practice).
# Auth & admin areas are explicitly disallowed.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /parent/dashboard
Disallow: /child/dashboard
Disallow: /shop
# Legacy paths kept only as client-side redirects for old bookmarks.
# Block them from indexing so Google doesn't report them as
# "Page with redirect" — canonical URLs are /online-practice/* and /practice-papers.
Disallow: /practice-papers/maths
Disallow: /practice-papers/english
Disallow: /paper-class

# Explicitly welcome the main crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /parent/dashboard
Disallow: /child/dashboard
Disallow: /shop
Disallow: /practice-papers/maths
Disallow: /practice-papers/english
Disallow: /paper-class

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

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