diff --git a/frontend/index.html b/frontend/index.html
index fef8afa..c7ed055 100644
--- a/frontend/index.html
+++ b/frontend/index.html
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
Siftlode
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/frontend/public/robots.txt b/frontend/public/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43d4e0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/public/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Siftlode is mostly a private, login-gated app; only the public landing and legal
+# pages are worth indexing. Allow crawling but keep bots out of the API surface.
+User-agent: *
+Allow: /
+Disallow: /api/
+Disallow: /auth/
+Disallow: /watch/