User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /config/
Disallow: /backup/
Disallow: /error/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /private/

# IMPORTANT: ALLOW ALL SEARCH ENGINE BOTS
# Google bots
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Allow: /
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

# Bing bots
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /
User-agent: msnbot-media
Allow: /

# Other legitimate search engines
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

# Block only the most aggressive/scraping bots (not search engines)
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: grokkit-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: exabot
Disallow: /
User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow: /

# Sitemap location (CRITICAL for Google Search Console)
Sitemap: https://theelitetouch.in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://theelitetouch.in/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://theelitetouch.in/robots.txt?format=xml