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# robots.txt — www.myprintershop.ca
# One group only. A crawler obeys exactly one User-agent group
# and ignores every other, so do NOT add per-bot groups unless
# you intend those bots to ignore everything below.
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User-agent: *
# --- Magento internals: no crawl value, and several are attack
# --- surface. Note: this file does not protect any of them.
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /errors/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /report/
Disallow: /shell/
Disallow: /var/
Disallow: /media/downloadable/
Disallow: /media/import/

# --- No-value / duplicate storefront paths.
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
Disallow: /sendfriend/
Disallow: /review/product/list/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /poll/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /rss/

# --- TEMPORARILY UNBLOCKED — de-indexing in progress (Aug 2026).
# --- These pages now serve NOINDEX,FOLLOW via the theme's
# --- local.xml. Google must be able to CRAWL them to read that
# --- noindex; blocking them here would freeze any already-indexed
# --- URL in the index permanently.
# --- Re-enable these three lines once Search Console shows no
# --- indexed URLs under /checkout/, /customer/ or /wishlist/
# --- (allow roughly 4-6 weeks). Review date: October 2026.
# Disallow: /checkout/
# Disallow: /customer/
# Disallow: /wishlist/

# --- Session and store-switch parameters.
# --- /*?*x= form matches the parameter anywhere in the query
# --- string; the /*?x= form only matched it in first position.
Disallow: /*?*SID=
Disallow: /*?*___SID=
Disallow: /*?*___store=
Disallow: /*?*___from_store=

# --- Sort / display parameters. Pagination (?p=) is deliberately
# --- NOT blocked: it is the crawl path to deep products.
Disallow: /*?*dir=
Disallow: /*?*order=
Disallow: /*?*limit=
Disallow: /*?*mode=

# --- Layered-navigation filters. These are THIS store's attribute
# --- codes, read from the /cartridges/hp category markup.
# --- Re-check other category trees for additional filters.
Disallow: /*?*price=
Disallow: /*?*cartridge_color=
Disallow: /*?*condition2=

# --- Internal search (redundant with /catalogsearch/, kept for
# --- any other route that emits ?q=).
Disallow: /*?*q=

# --- Rendering assets must stay crawlable. Google renders pages
# --- before ranking them, and /media/catalog/ feeds Google Images.
# --- The two /media/ Disallow rules above still win: longest
# --- matching path decides, not file order.
Allow: /skin/
Allow: /js/
Allow: /media/

# --- Sitemap ------------------------------------------------
Sitemap: https://www.myprintershop.ca/sitemap.xml