# ImagineToVideo Robots.txt
# Last Updated: 2026-07-25

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ========================================
# ALLOW: STATIC ASSETS (JS/CSS/images)
# Explicit grants so crawlers don't misinterpret blanket /_next paths
# ========================================
Allow: /_next/static
Allow: /_next/image
Allow: /imgs/
Allow: /images/

# ========================================
# ALLOW: SEO LANDING PAGES (Important for indexing)
# Mirrors staticPages in src/config/static-pages.ts — keep in sync.
# `Allow: /` above already permits these; this block is documentation of the
# pages we actively want indexed, not a behavioural change.
# ========================================
Allow: /imagine-to-video-ai
Allow: /subscribe-create-ai-videos
Allow: /ai-video-generator-30-seconds
Allow: /ai-video-in-10-seconds
Allow: /image-to-video-30-seconds
Allow: /art-video-generator
Allow: /capture-to-video-ai
Allow: /compare/
Allow: /flux-3
Allow: /flux-3-video
Allow: /seedance
Allow: /seedance-prompts
Allow: /seedance-2-5-video
Allow: /seedance-2-0-free
Allow: /seedance-2-5-free
Allow: /seedance-2-5-api
Allow: /wan-3-0
Allow: /wan-3-0-alternative
Allow: /happyhorse-ai
Allow: /luma-ray-3
Allow: /runway-gen-4-5
Allow: /kling-image-to-video
Allow: /image-to-video
Allow: /text-to-video
Allow: /ai-product-video-generator
Allow: /ai-movie-maker
Allow: /ai-4k-video-generator
Allow: /prompt-gallery

# ========================================
# BLOCK: ADMIN ROUTES (Management Dashboard)
# ========================================
Disallow: /*/admin/
Disallow: /admin/

# ========================================
# BLOCK: USER CONSOLE (Private User Data)
# ========================================
Disallow: /*/my-credits/
Disallow: /*/my-orders/
Disallow: /*/my-videos/      # Added: User videos page
Disallow: /*/my-invites/
Disallow: /*/api-keys/

# ========================================
# BLOCK: API ROUTES
# ========================================
Disallow: /api/

# ========================================
# BLOCK: AUTHENTICATION ROUTES
# ========================================
Disallow: /*/auth/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /*/signin/
Disallow: /signin/

# ========================================
# BLOCK: IRRELEVANT PAGES (Not for Google indexing)
# ========================================
# Showcase pages
Disallow: /*/showcase/       # External product showcase (all locales)
Disallow: /showcase/         # Showcase root
# Documentation pages
Disallow: /*/docs/           # Developer documentation (all locales)
Disallow: /docs/             # Documentation root
# Glass demo
Disallow: /*/glass-demo/     # UI component demo
Disallow: /glass-demo/

# ========================================
# BLOCK: DYNAMIC INVITE ROUTES
# ========================================
Disallow: /*/i/              # Invite code routes
Disallow: /i/

# ========================================
# BLOCK: QUERY PARAMETERS
# ========================================
Disallow: /*?*q=

# ========================================
# SITEMAP
# ========================================
Sitemap: https://imaginetovideo.com/sitemap.xml

# Crawl-delay for respectful crawling
Crawl-delay: 1

# ========================================
# BLOCK: INVALID URL PATTERNS (404 Prevention)
# ========================================
# Double locale prefix patterns (e.g., /zh/zh/page, /ja/ko/page) are redirected
# by middleware. We do NOT use "Disallow: /*/zh/" style patterns here — some
# crawlers interpret them loosely and may stop indexing legitimate /zh/... URLs.

# Legal pages are English-only (no localized versions)
Disallow: /*/privacy-policy
Disallow: /*/terms-of-service

# ========================================
# BING-SPECIFIC DIRECTIVES
# ========================================
# Bing respects crawl-delay more strictly than Google
# Allow Bingbot to crawl all public pages
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /*/auth/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /*/admin/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Crawl-delay: 1

# Bing Image Search optimization
User-agent: msnbot-media
Allow: /imgs/
Allow: /images/
Allow: /_next/image
Disallow: /api/

# Allow IndexNow verification file and API key file
Allow: /*.txt$

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# VIDEO SITEMAP
# ========================================
Sitemap: https://imaginetovideo.com/video-sitemap.xml