# robots.txt for FreelancePro.me
# Last updated: 28 July 2026

# Default rules for all crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /404.html

# Google-specific rules
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

# Bing-specific rules
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Block bad bots and scrapers
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://freelancepro.me/sitemap.xml

# Host preference
Host: https://freelancepro.me