# robots.txt for Who Owns Your Vet?
# https://whoownsyourvet.co.uk

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block the feedback/correction form and its many pre-filled query-string
# variants. Google was crawling 1,700+ /submit?... URLs ("Alternate page with
# proper canonical tag"), wasting crawl budget that should go to practice pages.
Disallow: /submit
Disallow: /submit/

# Block /search/ query-string variants (?location=, ?region=, ?ownership=, ?q=).
# The page is a client-side search UI: every variant serves identical HTML with
# a canonical of /search/, so crawling them only burns crawl budget — the same
# crawl-sink class as the /submit variants above. /search/ itself stays crawlable.
Disallow: /search/?

# Crawl-delay suggestion for polite crawlers
Crawl-delay: 1

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://whoownsyourvet.co.uk/sitemap-index.xml