# Global rules for all search engines
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow server-side rendering paths and internal APIs
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/static/
Disallow: /_next/image/
Disallow: /_next/data/
Disallow: /_next/on-demand-entries-ping
Disallow: /_next/webpack-hmr
Disallow: /*/embed$

# Prevent indexing of duplicate content with query strings
Disallow: /*?*

# Specific rules for Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Specific rules for Bingbot
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Specific rules for Yandex
User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Crawl-delay: 10  # Uncomment and adjust if needed to prevent server overload

# Sitemaps - XML format for all search engines
Sitemap: https://practicalwebtools.com/sitemap-index.xml

# Host directive - for Yandex
Host: https://practicalwebtools.com

# IndexNow - for Bing and Yandex
# Verify indexnow.txt is available at root