########################################################################
#  AI + SEARCH BOTS - full content access, crawl-hygiene rules enforced
#  This section MUST stay ABOVE the "User-agent: *" block.
#
#  WHY THE RULES ARE REPEATED HERE:
#  A crawler obeys ONLY the most specific User-agent group that matches it
#  and then ignores "User-agent: *" completely. These bots previously had
#  just "Allow: /", which meant Googlebot/bingbot silently skipped every
#  Disallow rule in the wildcard block.
#
#  STORE-CODE NOTE:
#  robots.txt prefix-matches from the site root, so "Disallow: /checkout/"
#  does NOT match "/au/checkout/". Every functional path therefore also has
#  a "/*/" variant. Param rules already start with "/*" and are fine.
#
#  "Allow: /" below keeps all real content (products, categories, CMS,
#  blog) fully crawlable - only the routes listed as Disallow are blocked.
########################################################################

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot     # ChatGPT Browse / Answers
User-agent: GPTBot            # OpenAI model-training
User-agent: PerplexityBot     # Perplexity AI
User-agent: ClaudeBot         # Anthropic Claude
User-agent: Google-Extended   # Google generative AI (Gemini / Vertex / AI snippets)
User-agent: Googlebot         # Google Search
User-agent: bingbot           # Bing Search / Copilot
User-agent: BingPreview       # Bing link previews
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview  # M365 / Teams / Outlook previews
User-agent: CCBot             # Common Crawl
User-agent: AhrefsBot         # Ahrefs site audit
Allow: /

Disallow: /mfcmsdr/
Disallow: /?mv=
Disallow: /?p=
Disallow: /?brand=
Disallow: /?rego=
Disallow: /?postcode=

# Directories
Disallow: /*/criteria*
Disallow: /*/*?brand=
Disallow: /*/mfcmsdr/block*
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /phpserver/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /report/
Disallow: /setup/
Disallow: /update/
Disallow: /var/
Disallow: /vendor/
Allow: /static/
Allow: //static/

# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /stores/store/redirect/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /control/
Disallow: /contacts/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customize/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /braintree/
Disallow: /order/
Disallow: /rma/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /returns/
Disallow: /sales/
Disallow: /invitation/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /includes/

# Files
Disallow: /composer.json
Disallow: /composer.lock
Disallow: /CONTRIBUTING.md
Disallow: /CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.html
Disallow: /COPYING.txt
Disallow: /Gruntfile.js
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: /nginx.conf.sample
Disallow: /package.json
Disallow: /php.ini.sample
Disallow: /RELEASE_NOTES.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.html
Disallow: /STATUS.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /cron.sh
Disallow: /error_log

# Parameters
Disallow: /*?cat=
Disallow: /*&cat=
Disallow: /*?carrier=
Disallow: /*&carrier=
Disallow: /*?color_filter=
Disallow: /*&color_filter=
Disallow: /*?display_size=
Disallow: /*&display_size=
Disallow: /*?network=
Disallow: /*&network=
Disallow: /*?os=
Disallow: /*&os=
Disallow: /*?price=
Disallow: /*&price=
Disallow: /*?timestamp=
Disallow: /*&timestamp=
Disallow: /*?___store=
Disallow: /*&___store=
Disallow: /*?___from_store=
Disallow: /*&___from_store=
Disallow: /*?SID=
Disallow: /*?___SID=
Disallow: /*?name=
Disallow: /*&name=
Disallow: /*?top_seller=
Disallow: /*&top_seller=
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /*?dir=
Disallow: /*&dir=
Disallow: /*?order=
Disallow: /*&order=

# Do not index pages that are sorted or filtered.
Disallow: /*?*product_list_mode=
Disallow: /*?*product_list_order=
Disallow: /*?*product_list_limit=
Disallow: /*?*product_list_dir=

# Do not index session ID
Disallow: /*?SID=
Disallow: /*.php$

# CVS, SVN directory and dump files
Disallow: /*.CVS
Disallow: /*.Zip$
Disallow: /*.Svn$
Disallow: /*.Idea$
Disallow: /*.Sql$
Disallow: /*.Tgz$

# Allow pagination
Allow: /*?p=

# Product filter parameters
Disallow: /*?color=
Disallow: /*&color=
Disallow: /*?size=
Disallow: /*&size=
Disallow: /*?material=
Disallow: /*&material=
Disallow: /*?style=
Disallow: /*&style=
Disallow: /*?manufacturer=
Disallow: /*&manufacturer=

# Sitemaps

# Store-scoped variants (8 store codes: /au/ /nz/ /gb/ /us/ /ca/ /ie/ /za/ /eu/).
# Needed because robots.txt matches from the root: '/checkout/' alone
# does not match '/au/checkout/'.
# DELIBERATELY NOT BLOCKED - raw catalog routes already return NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW
# plus rel=canonical to the pretty URL; blocking them would stop Google seeing
# that. Also: 26 raw catalog URLs are still listed in the Mediband sitemaps
# (products 1800/1816 are disabled and should be removed from the sitemap;
# categories 337/167/168 are live but missing url_rewrite rows on some stores).
# Disallow: /*/catalog/product/view/
# Disallow: /*/catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /*/catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /*/catalogsearch/
Disallow: /*/checkout/
Disallow: /*/customer/
Disallow: /*/productalert/
Disallow: /*/newsletter/
Disallow: /*/review/
Disallow: /*/wishlist/
Disallow: /*/sendfriend/
Disallow: /*/returns/
Disallow: /*/rma/
Disallow: /*/sales/
Disallow: /*/order/
Disallow: /*/invitation/
Disallow: /*/customize/
Disallow: /*/control/
Disallow: /*/contacts/
Disallow: /*/stores/store/redirect/
Disallow: /*/index.php/

# Internal search + campaign parameters
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?utm_source=
Disallow: /*&utm_source=
Disallow: /*?utm_medium=
Disallow: /*?utm_campaign=


########################################################################
#  Everything else
########################################################################
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Disallow: /mfcmsdr/
Disallow: /?mv=
Disallow: /?p=
Disallow: /?brand=
Disallow: /?rego=
Disallow: /?postcode=

# Directories
Disallow: /*/criteria*
Disallow: /*/*?brand=
Disallow: /*/mfcmsdr/block*
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /phpserver/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /report/
Disallow: /setup/
Disallow: /update/
Disallow: /var/
Disallow: /vendor/
Allow: /static/
Allow: //static/

# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /stores/store/redirect/
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /control/
Disallow: /contacts/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customize/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /braintree/
Disallow: /order/
Disallow: /rma/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /returns/
Disallow: /sales/
Disallow: /invitation/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /includes/

# Files
Disallow: /composer.json
Disallow: /composer.lock
Disallow: /CONTRIBUTING.md
Disallow: /CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.html
Disallow: /COPYING.txt
Disallow: /Gruntfile.js
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: /nginx.conf.sample
Disallow: /package.json
Disallow: /php.ini.sample
Disallow: /RELEASE_NOTES.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.html
Disallow: /STATUS.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /cron.sh
Disallow: /error_log

# Parameters
Disallow: /*?cat=
Disallow: /*&cat=
Disallow: /*?carrier=
Disallow: /*&carrier=
Disallow: /*?color_filter=
Disallow: /*&color_filter=
Disallow: /*?display_size=
Disallow: /*&display_size=
Disallow: /*?network=
Disallow: /*&network=
Disallow: /*?os=
Disallow: /*&os=
Disallow: /*?price=
Disallow: /*&price=
Disallow: /*?timestamp=
Disallow: /*&timestamp=
Disallow: /*?___store=
Disallow: /*&___store=
Disallow: /*?___from_store=
Disallow: /*&___from_store=
Disallow: /*?SID=
Disallow: /*?___SID=
Disallow: /*?name=
Disallow: /*&name=
Disallow: /*?top_seller=
Disallow: /*&top_seller=
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /*?dir=
Disallow: /*&dir=
Disallow: /*?order=
Disallow: /*&order=

# Do not index pages that are sorted or filtered.
Disallow: /*?*product_list_mode=
Disallow: /*?*product_list_order=
Disallow: /*?*product_list_limit=
Disallow: /*?*product_list_dir=

# Do not index session ID
Disallow: /*?SID=
Disallow: /*.php$

# CVS, SVN directory and dump files
Disallow: /*.CVS
Disallow: /*.Zip$
Disallow: /*.Svn$
Disallow: /*.Idea$
Disallow: /*.Sql$
Disallow: /*.Tgz$

# Allow pagination
Allow: /*?p=

# Product filter parameters
Disallow: /*?color=
Disallow: /*&color=
Disallow: /*?size=
Disallow: /*&size=
Disallow: /*?material=
Disallow: /*&material=
Disallow: /*?style=
Disallow: /*&style=
Disallow: /*?manufacturer=
Disallow: /*&manufacturer=

# Sitemaps

# Store-scoped variants (8 store codes: /au/ /nz/ /gb/ /us/ /ca/ /ie/ /za/ /eu/).
# Needed because robots.txt matches from the root: '/checkout/' alone
# does not match '/au/checkout/'.
# DELIBERATELY NOT BLOCKED - raw catalog routes already return NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW
# plus rel=canonical to the pretty URL; blocking them would stop Google seeing
# that. Also: 26 raw catalog URLs are still listed in the Mediband sitemaps
# (products 1800/1816 are disabled and should be removed from the sitemap;
# categories 337/167/168 are live but missing url_rewrite rows on some stores).
# Disallow: /*/catalog/product/view/
# Disallow: /*/catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /*/catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /*/catalogsearch/
Disallow: /*/checkout/
Disallow: /*/customer/
Disallow: /*/productalert/
Disallow: /*/newsletter/
Disallow: /*/review/
Disallow: /*/wishlist/
Disallow: /*/sendfriend/
Disallow: /*/returns/
Disallow: /*/rma/
Disallow: /*/sales/
Disallow: /*/order/
Disallow: /*/invitation/
Disallow: /*/customize/
Disallow: /*/control/
Disallow: /*/contacts/
Disallow: /*/stores/store/redirect/
Disallow: /*/index.php/

# Internal search + campaign parameters
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?utm_source=
Disallow: /*&utm_source=
Disallow: /*?utm_medium=
Disallow: /*?utm_campaign=

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/au/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/nz/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/gb/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/us/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/ca/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/ie/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/za/sitemap/mediband.xml
Sitemap: https://www.mediband.com/eu/sitemap/mediband.xml