# Robots.txt for The Appliance Directory

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block admin areas
Disallow: /admin/

# Block parameterized AI search results (duplicate / infinite variations)
# Disallow: /search?*

Sitemap: https://www.theappliancedirectory.com/sitemap.xml

# Block aggressive scrapers to reduce server load
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /