# we use Shopify as our ecommerce platform

User-agent: *
# Root paths
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /checkouts/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /policies/

# Locale-prefixed paths (for Shopify Markets/localization)
Disallow: /*/admin
Disallow: /*/cart
Disallow: /*/orders
Disallow: /*/checkouts
Disallow: /*/checkout
Disallow: /*/carts
Disallow: /*/account
Disallow: /*/search
Disallow: /*/policies/

# Sort parameters (root and locale-prefixed)
Disallow: /collections/*sort_by*
Disallow: /*/collections/*sort_by*

# Block URLs containing "wpm"
Disallow: /*wpm*

# ============================================
# Explicitly Allow AI Bots for Better Indexing
# ============================================

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended # Google Bard and AI indexing
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot # Bing Chat indexing
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai # Claude AI indexing
Allow: /

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