User-agent: *
Disallow: /orderconftemplates/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/usps_label_

# ALLOW FAVICONS FIRST
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/cropped-degree-fav-dark-*.png

# Google indexed /wp-content/uploads/export_temp/ while it was browsable. Those
# URLs now return 410 Gone, but a crawler that is disallowed cannot fetch a URL
# and therefore never learns it is gone, so the blanket rule below would keep
# them in the index indefinitely. This Allow is longer than that rule and so
# wins for this prefix only; everything else under uploads stays disallowed.
# Remove once the URLs have dropped out of the index.
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/export_temp/

# Slab Replay share cards live here and are the og:image for /replay/<token>.
# Applebot honours robots.txt when it fetches a preview image, so while this path
# sat under the blanket rule below iMessage showed a bare link with no card at
# all, where Facebook and Discord still previewed it because they largely ignore
# robots.txt for unfurls. Same longest-match trick as the rule above: this Allow
# is longer than the blanket Disallow and so wins for this prefix only.
# These files carry grades and rarity and never customer identity, and the pages
# that embed them stay noindex, so allowing the image does not put anything into
# a search index.
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/replay/

# The path those cards were served from before the feature was renamed from
# DEGREE Wrapped to Slab Replay. It holds no files now, only a 301 to the line
# above, and a crawler that is disallowed cannot fetch a URL and so never learns
# it has moved. Kept so an already-sent link still unfurls.
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/wrapped/

# Certification page card renders. Every /certification/<number>/ page names one
# of these as its og:image and as the Product schema image, so with the blanket
# rule below Google, Bing and the AI crawlers could read the grade but never
# fetch the picture of the card. Same longest-match trick as the rules above.
# These files carry the card, cert number and grade, never customer identity.
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/dgcp-og/

# THEN BLOCK EVERYTHING ELSE
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/

# XML sitemap for search engines and AI crawlers
Sitemap: https://degreegrading.com/sitemap_index.xml

# LLM-friendly site summary (proposed llmstxt.org convention)
# https://degreegrading.com/llms.txt