# LinkChat Robots.txt — https://linkchat.in
# Updated: 2026-06-03

# === Default: allow all crawlers ===
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Private / dynamic routes — do not index
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin/login
Disallow: /admin/dashboard
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /my-rooms
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /room/

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://linkchat.in/sitemap.xml

# === Google ===
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /my-rooms
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /room/

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

# === Bing / Microsoft ===
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

User-agent: MSNBot-Media
Allow: /

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

# === DuckDuckGo ===
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

# === Yahoo (Slurp) ===
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

# === Yandex ===
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: YandexImages
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 5

# === Apple (Safari web preview, Spotlight, Siri) ===
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# === Brave (uses Google index, but has own crawler) ===
User-agent: Brave
Allow: /

# === Baidu ===
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Crawl-delay: 5

# === Common SEO / monitoring tools — rate-limit aggressive crawlers ===
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: DotBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: rogerbot
Crawl-delay: 10

# === Block bad / useless bots ===
User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /