# Robots.txt for kanishka.dev - SEO Optimized
# Updated: 2025-11-06

# Allow all search engines to crawl everything
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Important directories - explicitly allowed
Allow: /css/
Allow: /js/
Allow: /images/
Allow: /pages/
Allow: /data/

# Disallow unnecessary files (security & performance)
Disallow: /node_modules/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /.vscode/
Disallow: /generate-sitemap.js

# Major Search Engine Specific Rules
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /images/

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

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

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# Sitemap location (for search engine discovery)
Sitemap: https://kanishka.dev/sitemap.xml

# Host (optional - helps with canonicalization)
Host: https://kanishka.dev