# home-vibes.ro — robots.txt (revised 2026-09-17)
# Rules match the real URLs of the shop (OpenCart + SEO Pro). Pages that must not be indexed but can
# be crawled carry their own noindex; robots.txt only saves crawl budget on URLs with no search value.

User-agent: *

# System & admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /system/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /api_import/

# All index.php routes: every public page has a clean SEO URL, and old index.php links 301 to it.
Disallow: /index.php
# ...except what Googlebot needs to render product pages (reviews are loaded by AJAX) and the
# Merchant Center product feed. Both answer with "X-Robots-Tag: noindex" (.htaccess).
Allow: /index.php?route=product/extended_reviews/
Allow: /index.php?route=feed/
# 05.10.2026: кнопки сортировки внутри блока отзывов плодят почти одинаковые адреса.
# Googlebot находил их при рендеринге; они отдают noindex, но тратят обход и попадают
# в отчёт «страница является копией». Сам эндпоинт без сортировки нужен и остаётся открыт.
Disallow: /index.php?route=product/extended_reviews/*sort=

# Checkout, customer account and service pages (real SEO paths of this shop)
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /favorites/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /forgot-password/
Disallow: /return_request
Disallow: /switch_lang/

# Internal search results (/search/?search=...)
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?

# Tracking parameters (affiliate links); canonical handles the rest (utm_*, gclid, fbclid)
Disallow: /*?*tracking=

# Sort, order and limit parameters: crawling is intentionally ALLOWED.
# These URLs carry a canonical to the clean category URL; blocking them kept old variants stuck in the
# index because Google could not read that canonical (see Search Console, 2026-08).
# Pagination (?page=N) is allowed too: page 2+ is self-canonical so deeper products are found.

# /homeyou 301s to the homepage via .htaccess — it must stay crawlable so Google sees the redirect.

Sitemap: https://home-vibes.ro/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://home-vibes.ro/imagemap.xml