User-agent: *

# Allow only clean destination-only search pages for SEO
# This allows URLs like: /search?destination=Miami%2C%20FL
Allow: /search?destination=*$
Allow: /search$

# Block all other search URLs with parameters (dates, filters, ratings, etc.)
# This prevents duplicate content from parameterized search results
Disallow: /search?*
Disallow: /search/*

# Block hotel pages with query parameters (dates, occupancy, etc.)
# Clean hotel URLs without params are still crawled and indexed
# This reduces crawl budget waste on duplicate parameterized pages
Disallow: /hotel/*?*

# Common crawl optimizations
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /*.json$

# Hotel pages - all canonicals point to main domain for SEO consolidation

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://bookonline.com/sitemap.xml