# PlayFaceToFace — robots.txt
# Search-engine crawlers should index the content & game-landing pages and
# stay out of session-bound / ephemeral game-room URLs.

User-agent: *

# Session pages are intentionally crawlable so search engines can observe
# their HTML meta robots and X-Robots-Tag noindex directives and remove them.

# Public game lobbies and solo pages are dynamic and have low indexable value.
Disallow: /*/public_lobby
Disallow: /*/solo

# Do not disallow /*/start_new or /*/join_random. Recognised crawlers receive
# a 404 response with X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow so search engines can
# recrawl and remove previously discovered action URLs from their indexes.

# Internal / test routes
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /testgrid
Disallow: /testembed
Disallow: /bot/
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /test_helpers/
Disallow: /webrtc-debug
Disallow: /card_game_interface_test
Disallow: /card_game_interface_test_backup
Disallow: /card_game_interface_dynamic
Disallow: /change_locale
Disallow: /dev/

# Rendering resources must remain crawlable for search and AdSense review.
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /hologram/

# Live game rooms (URLs like /bigtwo/abc123) are ephemeral and session-bound;
# the server returns 404 to crawlers that hit them. They are not listed in the
# sitemap and should not be crawled.

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