User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ⚠️ /contact WAS listed here as a shell path and is now a REAL page (2026-08-04),
# as are /support and /about. Point 3 below predicted exactly this, so: the current
# shell-only paths are /leaderboards, /blog, /pricing, /press. Re-check before
# trusting this list — it is a snapshot, not a guarantee.
#
# DO NOT add Disallow lines for SPA-shell paths (/leaderboards, /blog, /pricing,
# /press, or any other path that falls through the `**` rewrite).
# It reads like duplicate-content hygiene and is strictly worse than nothing:
#   1. index.html ships <link rel="canonical" href="https://konnectgaming.net/">
#      (app/index.html:34, built to firebase/public/index.html:34, with a comment
#      saying exactly that). Every `**`-rewrite path serves that shell, so Google
#      already folds all of them onto the root. The de-duplication is DONE.
#   2. Disallow blocks the FETCH, not the indexing. A blocked URL that something
#      links to can still be indexed — as a title-less, snippet-less entry, because
#      Googlebot was never allowed to read the canonical that would have collapsed
#      it. Blocking converts a correctly-canonicalised duplicate into an ugly
#      orphan listing.
#   3. It quietly breaks the day one of those paths becomes real. /pricing ships,
#      nobody remembers this file, and the new page is invisible for weeks.
# The correct lever for a path that must not be indexed is a served
# `<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">` (see siteChrome.page's noindex
# flag) — which requires the crawler to be ALLOWED to fetch it.
#
# AND the correct lever for a shell path that HAS a real equivalent is a 301, not a
# Disallow and not a canonical: firebase.json now redirects /privacy-policy,
# /privacypolicy, /terms-of-service, /tos, /legal, /help, /support-center,
# /contact-us and /faq to the real pages (2026-08-05). Canonical-to-root was wrong
# for those nine — they had true destinations — but it remains RIGHT for the shell
# paths above, which have none. The two mechanisms are complementary: 301 when a
# real page exists, canonical when it does not.

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