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+import { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
+
+export default function robots(): MetadataRoute.Robots {
+    return {
+        rules: {
+            userAgent: '*',
+            allow: '/',
+            disallow: '/private/',
+        },
+        sitemap: 'https://ryanfreeman.dev/sitemap.xml',
+    }
+}
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