User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block duplicate content from query parameters (more specific than /*?*)
Disallow: /*?shared=*
Disallow: /*?utm_*
Disallow: /*?fbclid=*
Disallow: /*?gclid=*
Disallow: /*?igshid=*
Disallow: /*?r=*

# Block admin, API, auth, and core endpoints
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /profiles/

# Block printable and download paths.
# Our printables are un-indexed today only because nothing links to them, which
# is a convention rather than a control: one shared link and they are crawlable.
# Gating the FILE is SEO-safe — Google's image-metadata requirement is scoped to
# the pages that contain images, not to files those pages link to, and Googlebot
# never fetches the PDF, so no cloaking surface exists. All four gated
# comparables (Education.com, Teachers Pay Teachers, Twinkl, SuperColoring)
# block these paths.
Disallow: /download/
Disallow: /print/
Disallow: /printable/
Disallow: /*.pdf$

# Block test and development files
Disallow: /test-*
Disallow: /*.json$

# Block internal search parameters
Disallow: /*?s=*
Disallow: /*?search=*

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://mystorypie.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://mystorypie.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://mystorypie.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml

# Preferred domain (non-www)
# This helps search engines understand canonical preference