# robots.txt for https://elevatestaffing.ai
#
# Strategy:
#   * Public marketing pages — fully crawlable (no Disallow)
#   * Auth gateways (/login, /employeelogin, /auth) — ALLOW crawl so Google
#     can read the page-level `<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">`
#     served via React Helmet. Disallowing them here blocks the crawl AND
#     prevents Google from seeing the noindex, leaving the URL stuck in the
#     index with a "No information available" snippet (a real incident
#     2026-06-02 surfaced this). Page-level noindex is the right primitive.
#   * Authenticated app routes — Disallow, since they require a session and
#     Google can't reach them anyway. The Disallow is good hygiene + drops
#     the URLs from the discover-via-link path.
#   * Sitemap exposed at the bottom for crawlers + Search Console.

User-agent: *

# Public marketing surface — allowed (these are the default; listed for
# documentation, not because Disallow would otherwise apply).
Allow: /
Allow: /products
Allow: /pricing
Allow: /requestademo
Allow: /comparepage
Allow: /whyus
Allow: /blog
Allow: /privacypolicy
Allow: /termsofservice
Allow: /cookiespolicy
Allow: /gdprpage

# Block authenticated app pages from indexing. These all sit behind a
# session check; the Disallow keeps them out of the link-discovery graph.
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /candidates
Disallow: /rateCandidates
Disallow: /activeInterviews
Disallow: /companymanagement
Disallow: /myAssignedCandidates
Disallow: /aiassistant
Disallow: /aiagents
Disallow: /jobSearch
Disallow: /recruiterAnalysis
Disallow: /vendorDirectory
Disallow: /hrtickets
Disallow: /resumebuilder
Disallow: /myprofile
Disallow: /documents
Disallow: /monthlytimesheets
Disallow: /weeklystatus
Disallow: /mytask
Disallow: /contacthr
Disallow: /home
Disallow: /hr
Disallow: /h1b-questionnaire
Disallow: /lca-acknowledgment
Disallow: /lca-postings
Disallow: /certified-lca-receipt

# NOTE: /login, /employeelogin, /auth are intentionally NOT listed under
# Disallow. They return `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">`
# via React Helmet, and we WANT Google to crawl them so the noindex takes
# effect and the URL is dropped from the search index.

Sitemap: https://elevatestaffing.ai/sitemap.xml