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From: poduck <poduck@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 10:01:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(seo): Block crawlers and add sitemap
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- Set robots meta tag to noindex, nofollow (site not live)
- Update robots.txt with instructions for going live
- Add sitemap.xml with all marketing pages

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 frontend/index.html         |  2 +-
 frontend/public/robots.txt  |  9 ++++++-
 frontend/public/sitemap.xml | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 frontend/public/sitemap.xml

diff --git a/frontend/index.html b/frontend/index.html
index fb9de79..1d29c43 100644
--- a/frontend/index.html
+++ b/frontend/index.html
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://smoothschedule.com/og-image.png" />
 
     <!-- Additional SEO -->
-    <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
+    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
     <meta name="author" content="Smooth Schedule Inc." />
     <link rel="canonical" href="https://smoothschedule.com" />
     <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
diff --git a/frontend/public/robots.txt b/frontend/public/robots.txt
index 3bbbaa9..d925789 100644
--- a/frontend/public/robots.txt
+++ b/frontend/public/robots.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # robots.txt - SmoothSchedule
-# Deny all robots while in development
+# Currently blocking all crawlers - site not yet live
 
 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /
+
+# When ready to go live, replace above with:
+# User-agent: *
+# Allow: /
+# Disallow: /api/
+# Disallow: /admin/
+# Sitemap: https://smoothschedule.com/sitemap.xml
diff --git a/frontend/public/sitemap.xml b/frontend/public/sitemap.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aeb94e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/public/sitemap.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
+    <priority>1.0</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/features</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.8</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/pricing</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.8</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/about</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.6</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/contact</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.6</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/signup</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.9</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/privacy</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.3</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://smoothschedule.com/terms</loc>
+    <lastmod>2024-12-04</lastmod>
+    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.3</priority>
+  </url>
+</urlset>