# Ultimats (Shopify) – SEO-safe robots.txt
# Blocks checkout/account/private URLs + reduces crawl waste from sort/filter duplicates.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /account

# Shopify downloads + internal endpoints
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /apple-app-site-association
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products

# Search results (thin/duplicate)
Disallow: /search

# Policies (optional; keep Disallow if you don't want them indexed)
Disallow: /policies/
Disallow: /*/policies/

# Sort/filter/parameter crawl control (common Shopify duplicate sources)
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: */collections/*filter*&*filter*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2b*
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2b*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2b*

# Preview parameters
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://ultimats.com/sitemap.xml


# --- Optional bot policies (safe defaults) ---

# Allow Google Ads crawler to verify landing pages
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

# Throttle heavy SEO crawlers (optional)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow: /

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow: /

User-agent: Pinterest
Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /

# Block known aggressive crawler (optional)
User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /