User-agent: *

# Private and transactional areas 
# * = wildcard 
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /*/*/cart/
Disallow: /*/*/checkout/
Disallow: /customer/
Allow: /seller$
Disallow: /*/*/seller/

# Internal search and query based pages
Disallow: /*/*/search
Disallow: /*/*/search/
Disallow: /?q=
Disallow: /?query=
Disallow: /*/*/?q=
Disallow: /*/*/?query=

# Locale switcher / internal
Disallow: /*/*/set-country-locale/
Disallow: /set-country-locale/

# Sorting, filtering and non-canonical parameters (avoid duplicate content)
Disallow: /*/*/?sort=
Disallow: /*/*/?order=
Disallow: /*/*/?dir=
Disallow: /*/*/?filter=
Disallow: /*/*/?price=
Disallow: /?sort=
Disallow: /?order=
Disallow: /?dir=
Disallow: /?filter=
Disallow: /?price=

# APIs and internal services

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /_svc/
Disallow: /_vs/

# Allow assets required for rendering 

Allow: /themes/
Allow: /themes/*/build/
Allow: /themes/*/build/assets/

# AI crawlers (policy decision, does not affect Google)

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

# Sitemap index
Sitemap: https://cartlow.com/sitemap/index.xml