# Preferred domain
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block query string parameters to prevent duplicate indexing
Disallow: /*?*
Allow: /download/*?*
Allow: /feed/*?*

# Block admin and auth pages
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /api/

# Allow PDF downloads
Allow: /uploads/
Allow: /download/

# Google Scholar & Academic Crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0.5

User-agent: Google Scholar Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

# Generic crawl settings
Crawl-delay: 1

# Sitemap locations
Sitemap: https://nujournal.in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://nujournal.in/feed/current-issue.xml
Sitemap: https://nujournal.in/feed/articles.xml
Sitemap: https://nujournal.in/html-sitemap