# robots.txt.liquid for Shopify

# Allow Google Merchant Center crawlers to inspect all landing pages and images
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: *
# Allow key public sections
Allow: /products
Allow: /collections
Allow: /blogs
Allow: /pages
Allow: /policies

# Block sensitive and system paths for other crawlers
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /apps/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /apple-app-site-association
Disallow: /shop_data/
Disallow: /recommendations
Disallow: /gift_cards
Disallow: /collections/*?*sort_by=*
Disallow: /*?*view=*

# Sitemap reference
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml