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# Swar Kala Sangam — robots.txt
# Updated: May 2026
# Upload to: public_html/robots.txt
# ============================================================

# ── Block Baidu bot entirely (injecting referrer spam) ───────
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-video
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-news
Disallow: /

# ── Block other known spam/scraper bots ─────────────────────
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# ── All other bots (Google, Bing, etc.) ─────────────────────
User-agent: *

# ── Block ALL tracking & spam URL parameters ────────────────
Disallow: /*?_bdsid=
Disallow: /*?_bd_prev_page=
Disallow: /*?_ga=
Disallow: /*?_gl=
Disallow: /*?_gz=
Disallow: /*?_gcl=
Disallow: /*?srsltid=
Disallow: /*?callback=
Disallow: /*?campaign_uid=
Disallow: /*?return_url=
Disallow: /*?sortby=
Disallow: /*?id=
Disallow: /*?category=
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*?limit=
Disallow: /*?c=g
Disallow: /*?product/
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?utm_source=
Disallow: /*?utm_medium=
Disallow: /*?utm_campaign=
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=

# ── Block spam / non-existent paths ─────────────────────────
Disallow: /items/
Disallow: /pages.php
Disallow: /shop.php
Disallow: /vendor.html
Disallow: /link.xhtml
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /home
Disallow: /index.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /temp/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /*.php$

# ── Allow legitimate pages ───────────────────────────────────
Allow: /index.html
Allow: /about-swar-kala-sangam.html
Allow: /art-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /flute-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /franchise.html
Allow: /guitar-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /harmonium-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /kathak-dance-class.html
Allow: /kathak-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /kathak-classes.html
Allow: /music-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /music-classes-in-gurgaon2.html
Allow: /music.html
Allow: /online-music-class.html
Allow: /piano-classes-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /sitar-class-in-gurgaon.html
Allow: /swar-kala-lms.html
Allow: /brochure.pdf
Allow: /images/
Allow: /default.php

# ── Sitemap ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
Sitemap: https://swarkalasangam.com/sitemap.xml