User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Tracking parameters (fbclid, gclid, utm_*, noonce, ref) are handled by
# server-side 301 redirects that strip them and return the canonical URL.
# They are NOT blocked here — blocking prevents redirects from firing and
# causes Google Search Console to report them as "Blocked by robots.txt".

# Disallow admin and private areas
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth
Disallow: /profile/*/notifications
Disallow: /profile/*/account
Disallow: /api/

# Allow search engines to crawl important content
Allow: /movies/
Allow: /food-drink/
Allow: /places/
Allow: /tv/
Allow: /events/
Allow: /articles/
Allow: /author/
Allow: /reviews/

# Explicitly allow favicons for search engines
Allow: /favicon.ico
Allow: /favicon-48x48.png
Allow: /icons/

# Google News specific directives
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /articles/
Allow: /food-drink/articles/
Allow: /tv/news/
Allow: /movies/news/

# Sitemap locations
Sitemap: https://www.clickthecity.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clickthecity.com/sitemap-news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clickthecity.com/sitemap-articles.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clickthecity.com/sitemap-movies.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clickthecity.com/sitemap-events.xml
Sitemap: https://www.clickthecity.com/sitemap-tv-series.xml

# Crawl delay to be respectful
Crawl-delay: 1