Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
# System & private
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /cart$
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /checkout$
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens
Disallow: /.well-known/shopify/monorail
Disallow: /apple-app-site-association

# Search and previews
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*

# Collection/Blog noise (sorting, filters, URL-encoded “+”)
Disallow: /collections/*?*sort_by=*
Disallow: /*/collections/*?*sort_by=*
Disallow: /collections/*+*
Disallow: /collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/collections/*+*
Disallow: /*/collections/*%2B*
Disallow: /blogs/*+*
Disallow: /blogs/*%2B*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*+*
Disallow: /*/blogs/*%2B*

# Product recommendations API endpoints
Disallow: /recommendations/products
Disallow: /*/recommendations/products

# Allow policy pages to index (valuable content)
# (Remove any Disallow for /policies/)
# Allow: /policies/

# AdsBot needs explicit rules (it otherwise ignores generic UA blocks)
User-agent: adsbot-google
Disallow: /cart$
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /checkout$
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /sf_private_access_tokens
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /*?*oseid=*
Disallow: /cdn/wpm/*.js

# Throttle certain crawlers (optional)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Pinterest
Crawl-delay: 1