User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow duplicate URL patterns to prevent indexing of duplicate content
# Note: Nginx redirects handle these at server level (301 redirects), 
# but these rules provide additional protection for search engines
Disallow: /index.php
Disallow: /?$

# Disallow multiple consecutive slashes (robots.txt doesn't support regex,
# so we list common patterns; Nginx handles all cases with regex redirects)
Disallow: /*//
Disallow: /*///
Disallow: /*////
Disallow: /*/////
Disallow: /*//////
Disallow: /*///////
Disallow: /*////////
Disallow: /*/////////
Disallow: /*//////////
Disallow: /*///////////
Disallow: /*////////////

# Disallow authentication and user management pages
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /phone-verify
Disallow: /email-verify
Disallow: /forgot
Disallow: /confirm/
Disallow: /reset_password
Disallow: /admin_reset_password
Disallow: /admin_login

# Disallow account and profile pages
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /account/pmi
Disallow: /account/address
Disallow: /account/psw
Disallow: /account/email
Disallow: /profile/

# Disallow user-specific pages
Disallow: /my/
Disallow: /my/orders/
Disallow: /my/deposits
Disallow: /my/selling
Disallow: /my/payments
Disallow: /my/introduces
Disallow: /my/buying
Disallow: /my/bids/
Disallow: /my/upload-items
Disallow: /my/upload-view/
Disallow: /my/upload-invoices
Disallow: /my/upload-invoice-view/
Disallow: /my/upload-item-invoice/

# Disallow vendor pages
Disallow: /vendors/
Disallow: /vendors/add
Disallow: /vendors/selling/
Disallow: /vendors/introducer/
Disallow: /vendors/upcomingAuctionReport/
Disallow: /vendors/payment

# Disallow customer management
Disallow: /customers/add

# Disallow search and filtering pages
Disallow: /items?*
Disallow: /products?*
Disallow: /auctions?*
Disallow: /auction?*
Disallow: /past-auction?*
Disallow: /upcoming-auction?*

# Disallow pagination pages
Disallow: /*?page=*
Disallow: /*?p=*
Disallow: /*?offset=*
Disallow: /*?limit=*
Disallow: /*?q=*

# Disallow sorting and filtering parameters
Disallow: /*?sort=*
Disallow: /*?order=*
Disallow: /*?direction=*
Disallow: /*?statusId=*
Disallow: /*?auctionId=*
Disallow: /*?reserveStatus=*

# Disallow admin and management pages
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin/logs/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /uploads

# Disallow product management
Disallow: /products/add
Disallow: /products/auction/
Disallow: /products/vendors/
Disallow: /product/upload/
Disallow: /category/add
Disallow: /auctions/add
Disallow: /users/add
Disallow: /auctionItems/add
Disallow: /attributes/add

# Disallow bidding and auction management
Disallow: /absentee/bids/
Disallow: /absentee/cancel/
Disallow: /favorite/
Disallow: /watch-items
Disallow: /bidders

# Disallow shop and cart functionality
Disallow: /shop/remove/
Disallow: /shop/cart/
Disallow: /product/

# Disallow export and template pages
Disallow: /export-template/add
Disallow: /export/template/
Disallow: /export/products/
Disallow: /export/images/
Disallow: /export/down/

# Disallow email and messaging
Disallow: /email/send/
Disallow: /chatlist
Disallow: /why-sell/newAuctionEmail
Disallow: /why-sell/checkMissingImages
Disallow: /why-sell/register/

# Disallow form submissions and actions
Disallow: /contact?*
Disallow: /send-feedback?*
Disallow: /seller-agreement/sign

# Disallow specific product status pages
Disallow: /available
Disallow: /live
Disallow: /past
Disallow: /pendings

# Disallow payment and financial pages
Disallow: /pmi
Disallow: /upload-invoices

# Disallow appraisal and advertising
Disallow: /appraisal/
Disallow: /advertising-arena/

# Allow important content pages
Allow: /about
Allow: /logistics
Allow: /careers
Allow: /why-buy
Allow: /why-sell
Allow: /why-sell/sell
Allow: /why-sell/consign
Allow: /why-sell/separately
Allow: /how_auctions_work
Allow: /auction-calendar
Allow: /auction-result-search
Allow: /how-to-leave-a-bid
Allow: /consign-an-item
Allow: /seller-reviews
Allow: /estate-sell
Allow: /cookie-policy
Allow: /terms-conditions
Allow: /privacy-policy
Allow: /seller-agreement
Allow: /send-feedback
Allow: /lot/
Allow: /auction/
Allow: /past-auction/
Allow: /upcoming-auction
Allow: /blogs/
Allow: /articles/

# Allow AMP pages (mobile-optimized content)
Allow: /amp/
Allow: /amp/auction/
Allow: /amp/about
Allow: /amp/upcoming-auction
Allow: /amp/past-auction

# Block AMP pages with any query parameters
Disallow: /amp/*?*

# Allow sitemap
Sitemap: https://antiquearena.com/sitemap.xml