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# robots.txt.liquid for Shopify Store: Millet Matters
# Optimized for SEO and Google Search Console Sitemap Discovery
# Website: https://milletmatters.com
# Platform: Shopify
# Managed by: Sandeep Shring | Last Updated: 2026-1-27
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User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Allow Shopify CDN & assets
Allow: /cdn-cgi/
Allow: /assets/

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# BLOCK INTERNAL / NON-SEO SHOPIFY PATHS
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Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /orders/

# Account handling
Disallow: /account/
Allow: /account/login

# Cart handling
Disallow: /cart
Allow: /cart
Allow: /cart/change
Allow: /cart/update

# Search explicitly allowed
Allow: /search

# Policy pages handling
Disallow: /policies/
Allow: /policies/privacy-policy
Allow: /policies/refund-policy
Allow: /policies/terms-of-service
Allow: /policies/shipping-policy

# Duplicate collection URLs
Disallow: /collections/*+*

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# BLOCK FILTER, SORT & PAGINATION PARAMETERS
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Disallow: /*?sort_by=
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*?view=
Disallow: /collections/*/page/*

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# OPTIONAL CRAWL DELAY (NON-GOOGLE BOTS)
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Crawl-delay: 5

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# SITEMAPS
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Sitemap: https://milletmatters.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://milletmatters.com/sitemap_products_1.xml
Sitemap: https://milletmatters.com/sitemap_collections_1.xml
Sitemap: https://milletmatters.com/sitemap_pages_1.xml
Sitemap: https://milletmatters.com/sitemap_blogs_1.xml
Sitemap: https://milletmatters.com/sitemap_articles_1.xml

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