# robots.txt for https://e-brandingtools.com
# Crawl control only. Pages that should be dropped from the index instead carry a
# <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag -- a Disallow here would stop crawlers
# reading that tag, which keeps an already-indexed URL indexed rather than removing it.

User-agent: *

# Back-end paths. Nothing links to these, so they are unlikely to be indexed already
# and a plain Disallow is enough.
Disallow: /API/
Disallow: /mailer/
Disallow: /vendor/

# NOTE: /OrderForm/ is deliberately NOT disallowed. Every "BUY NOW" button on the site
# links into it, so it is almost certainly indexed already -- and blocking it here would
# stop crawlers reading the noindex tag that now removes it. Crawlable + noindex is what
# actually drops a URL from the index; Disallow alone just freezes it there.

# Superseded mobile site and its abandoned CMS.
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: /Mobileweb/
Disallow: /EN/

# Stylesheets, scripts and images must stay crawlable so Google can render pages.
Allow: /global/

Sitemap: https://e-brandingtools.com/sitemap.xml