User-agent: *
Allow: /

# The public, indexable surfaces.
Allow: /bounty-board
Allow: /talent
Allow: /mentorship
Allow: /courses
Allow: /categories
Allow: /bundles
Allow: /store
Allow: /monster-coin
Allow: /legal

# The Arabic half of every one of the above. Each is a separate
# indexable URL with reciprocal hreflang tags, not a duplicate.
Allow: /ar/

# Signed-in areas. None of these render anything a search result
# should land on, and several are per-user , crawling them only
# burns crawl budget.
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /workspace
Disallow: /ar/workspace
Disallow: /student
Disallow: /ar/student
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /mentor/

# Auth and transactional flows.
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /sign_in
Disallow: /sign_up
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /sign-up
Disallow: /sign_out
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password
Disallow: /email/verify
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /payment/
Disallow: /support/checkout

# Server-rendered share cards , referenced by og:image (which
# crawlers fetch regardless of this file) but images, not pages.
Disallow: /*/share-image.png$

# Deliberately NOT disallowed: the directories' filtered, sorted
# and paginated views (?sort=, ?skills=, ?page=). Disallow blocks
# CRAWLING, not indexing, so blocking page 2 of the board would
# stop Google ever reaching the bounties that only appear on it.
# Those views send "noindex,follow" plus a canonical to the clean
# URL instead , out of the index, still walkable to every listing.

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