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# robots.txt for Balaji Power Solar
# https://balajipowersolar.com
# Last updated: 2026-01-01
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# ---------- ALLOW ALL WELL-BEHAVED CRAWLERS ----------
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ---------- DISALLOW INTERNAL / NON-PUBLIC PATHS ----------
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /tmp
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*.xml$ 
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.jpeg$
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.gif$
Allow: /*.svg$
Allow: /*.webp$
Allow: /*.ico$
Allow: /*.woff$
Allow: /*.woff2$
Allow: /*.ttf$

# ---------- CRAWL DELAY (polite) ----------
Crawl-delay: 1

# ---------- MAJOR SEARCH ENGINE BOTS ----------
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.jpeg$
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.webp$
Allow: /*.svg$

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 2

# ---------- AI TRAINING / SCRAPING BOTS ----------
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# ---------- SOCIAL PREVIEW BOTS (allow for link previews) ----------
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

# ---------- BAD BOTS (block aggressive scrapers) ----------
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

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# SITEMAP LOCATION
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Sitemap: https://balajipowersolar.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://balajipowersolar.com/sitemap.html