User-agent: *

# Private/auth pages
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /messages
Disallow: /favorites
Disallow: /blocked-users
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /notifications

# City/category hub pages are now handled via <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
# in the SPA (see src/App.js route handler). We let Googlebot crawl them so it
# can read the noindex tag and drop them from the index cleanly. Previously these
# were Disallowed, which trapped 76 already-indexed pages as "duplicate" because
# Google couldn't re-crawl to see the noindex. Removed 2026-04-13.

# Allow crawlable pages with unique content
Allow: /
Allow: /browse
Allow: /discover
Allow: /buy/
Allow: /listings/
Allow: /hire/
Allow: /wanted/
Allow: /llms.txt

Sitemap: https://bids44.com/sitemap.xml