# robots.txt for calculator.free
# Served as a plain-text TemplateView (no Django i18n `g` context), same as
# /ads.txt. Crawling is open; only private / non-content surfaces and the
# crawl-trap query strings are disallowed. Language alternates (?lang=xx) are
# intentionally NOT disallowed — they are the hreflang targets in the sitemap.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Admin, APIs and payment webhooks — never content. The /api/ DOCS page
# (ApiDocsPage) is deliberately crawlable — it's the paid-API sales surface,
# internally linked from nav/pricing and listed in the sitemap; only the
# JSON endpoints and beacons below are blocked.
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/v1/
Disallow: /api/accounts/
Disallow: /api/track/
Disallow: /api/rate-page/
Disallow: /ipns/

# Account / auth / billing flows — private, no SEO value.
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /logout/
Disallow: /signup/
Disallow: /verify/
Disallow: /onboarding/
Disallow: /lost-password/
Disallow: /restore-password/
Disallow: /success/
Disallow: /cancel/
Disallow: /delete-account/

# Crawl-trap query strings (fleet rule): return/next redirect targets, raw
# search (?q=) and pure re-orders (?sort=), in both ?- and &-position (the
# param can appear after ?lang=xx). ?lang= stays crawlable on purpose — it is
# the hreflang target set, and since the 2026-07 sitemap port the page-level
# hreflang tags in base.html are the ONLY hreflang channel.
Disallow: /*?return=
Disallow: /*&return=
Disallow: /*?next=
Disallow: /*&next=
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*&sort=

# First-party Clicky beacon proxy (anti-adblock) — same-origin 200s that eat
# Googlebot crawl budget if left crawlable (fleet rule; free.ai measured ~49%
# of re-crawls burning on these).
Disallow: /*?site_id=
Disallow: /*&site_id=

Sitemap: https://calculator.free/sitemap.xml