# robots.txt for https://www.backflipt.com/
# Last updated: 2025-11-20

User-agent: *
# Allow everything by default
Allow: /

# Block internal / technical paths that should not be indexed
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /assets/admin/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /signin.php

# Block AI crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# If you have any staging/sandbox environments under main domain, block them:
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /sandbox/

# Explicitly allow important marketing and product pages (documentation-friendly)
Allow: /lumen-a2a-gateway
Allow: /lumen-poet
Allow: /lumen-financial-solutions
Allow: /lumen-healthcare-solutions
Allow: /lumen-transportation-solutions
Allow: /backflipt-ai-platform
Allow: /managed-file-transfer-products
Allow: /transferiq-orchestrate
Allow: /lumen-ai-transferview
Allow: /transferiq-continuous-touch
Allow: /transferiq-aws-mft-byoc
Allow: /backflipt-apps-for-mft
Allow: /backflipt-analytics-for-mft
Allow: /backflipt-provisioning-center-for-mft
Allow: /backflipt-continuous-touch-for-mft
Allow: /backflipt-apps-for-axway-mft
Allow: /transportation-solutions
Allow: /healthcare-solutions
Allow: /insurance-financial-industries-solutions
Allow: /energy-utilities-solutions
Allow: /government-solutions
Allow: /videos
Allow: /case-studies
Allow: /solution-briefs
Allow: /white-papers
Allow: /infographics
Allow: /infographic-backflipt-apps-for-axway-mft
Allow: /get-my-api-to-ai-report

# Block archival bots
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# Point crawlers to your XML sitemap (update path if different)
Sitemap: https://www.backflipt.com/sitemap.xml