# ACE AI Spark — robots.txt
#
# NOTE ON GROUPS (fixed 2026-07-29): a crawler obeys ONLY the single most
# specific matching user-agent group. The previous file had a bare
# "User-agent: Googlebot / Allow: /" group, so Googlebot used that group and
# ignored the Disallow rules under "User-agent: *" entirely — /investment-terms
# ended up indexed as a result. Do not re-add per-bot groups unless they carry
# the full rule set.
#
# Private routes (investor pages, auth-gated app screens) are kept out of the
# index with <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> emitted by
# scripts/prerender-routes.ts — NOT with Disallow. Disallow blocks the fetch,
# which would stop Googlebot from ever seeing the noindex and leave the
# already-indexed URLs stuck in the index. Once Search Console reports them
# removed, Disallow rules may be added back below.
#
# The old "Host:" line was dropped: it is a Yandex extension that Google
# ignores, and it was doing no canonical-domain work. www → apex is a 301
# redirect rule in Cloudflare.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://aceaispark.com/sitemap.xml