# https://shortical.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Player experiment variants — duplicates of /player with zero external links.
Disallow: /player-inline
Disallow: /player-v2
Disallow: /player-with-stripe
Disallow: /player-simple

# App-install redirect shims and standalone video shells — functional, not content.
Disallow: /auto-redirect
Disallow: /static
Disallow: /static-auto
Disallow: /trailer
Disallow: /video

# Checkout and per-user state.
Disallow: /purchase
Disallow: /purchase-v2
Disallow: /history

# Test harness.
Disallow: /e2e

# Client-side only; no server search exists. Search-results-as-pages is named
# in Google's doorway policy.
Disallow: /search

# /player is deliberately NOT disallowed. It carries in-the-wild shared links,
# and blocking it would strand whatever of them is already indexed: a URL that
# cannot be crawled can never be re-evaluated or dropped.
#
# It is also NOT redirected. An earlier design 301'd it to the matching /drama
# page to consolidate that equity; that was dropped so a shared link still
# PLAYS instead of landing on a catalog page. The cost is accepted: /player
# keeps its equity and cannot rank for any single title, since every series
# shares the one URL.

# /drama/*/episode-* is deliberately NOT disallowed either. Episodes 2..N carry
# `noindex,follow` in the page itself — a directive the crawler can only read if
# it is allowed to fetch the page. Crawl-then-noindex is the correct pattern.

# No query-parameter rules by design. Blocking /*?*utm_ would discard equity
# from shared URLs carrying tracking params; the absolute, query-string-free
# self-canonical on every prerendered page is the correct universal fix.

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