AdSense: fix robots /dashboards/ typo, add Privacy Policy to footer, remove dashboard sub-pages from sitemap

Author: sabledattatray

app/robots.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export default function robots(): MetadataRoute.Robots {
         // /lp/ is intentionally NOT blocked so SEO landing pages can rank
         userAgent: '*',
         allow: '/',
-        disallow: ['/api/', '/dashboard/', '/admin/', '/preview'],
+        disallow: ['/api/', '/dashboards/', '/admin/', '/preview', '/tools/workspace'],
       },
 
       // ── Google crawlers ───────────────────────────────────────────────

app/sitemap.ts

@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ export default async function sitemap(): Promise<MetadataRoute.Sitemap> {
     '/services',
     '/portfolio',
     '/blog',
-    '/dashboards',
+    '/dashboards',        // Dashboard index — kept (editorial overview content)
+    // Individual dashboard sub-pages excluded: JS-rendered charts are thin content for crawlers
+    // They are blocked in robots.ts under /dashboards/
     '/about',
     '/contact',
     '/privacy',
@@ -110,6 +112,7 @@ export default async function sitemap(): Promise<MetadataRoute.Sitemap> {
     '/tools/mermaid-forge',
     '/tools/bi-roi-calculator',
     '/tools/prompt-auditor',
+    // /tools/workspace excluded — app interface, blocked in robots.ts
     '/infrastructure',
     '/knowledge/taxonomy',
     '/knowledge/standards',
@@ -120,20 +123,12 @@ export default async function sitemap(): Promise<MetadataRoute.Sitemap> {
     '/knowledge/rfc/002-execution-chains',
     '/knowledge/rfc/003-intent-mapping',
     '/knowledge/comparisons',
-    '/dashboards/global-sales-intelligence',
-    '/dashboards/collection-intelligence',
-    '/dashboards/revenue-intelligence',
-    '/dashboards/interactive',
-    '/dashboards/blinkit-sales',
-    '/dashboards/sales-pipeline',
-    '/dashboards/surgical-ai',
   ].map((route) => ({
     url: `${baseUrl}${route}`,
     lastModified: baselineDate,
-    changeFrequency: route.startsWith('/dashboards/') || route.startsWith('/tools/') ? 'weekly' as const : 'monthly' as const,
+    changeFrequency: route.startsWith('/tools/') ? 'weekly' as const : 'monthly' as const,
     priority: route === '' ? 1.0
       : route === '/tools' ? 0.9
-      : route.startsWith('/dashboards/') ? 0.85
       : route.startsWith('/tools/') ? 0.85
       : 0.7,
   }));

components/Footer.tsx

@@ -60,11 +60,12 @@ const NAV_LINKS: NavSection[] = [
   {
     heading: 'Explore',
     links: [
-      { label: 'Live Feed',      href: '/analytics-live', icon: Activity },
-      { label: 'Technical Blog', href: '/blog',       icon: BookOpen },
-      { label: 'AI Glossary',    href: '/glossary',   icon: Search },
-      { label: 'Disclaimer',    href: '/disclaimer', icon: Shield },
-      { label: 'Sitemap',   href: '/sitemap.xml', icon: Globe, external: true },
+      { label: 'Live Feed',       href: '/analytics-live', icon: Activity },
+      { label: 'Technical Blog',  href: '/blog',           icon: BookOpen },
+      { label: 'AI Glossary',     href: '/glossary',       icon: Search },
+      { label: 'Privacy Policy',  href: '/privacy',        icon: Shield },
+      { label: 'Disclaimer',      href: '/disclaimer',     icon: Shield },
+      { label: 'Sitemap',         href: '/sitemap.xml',    icon: Globe, external: true },
     ],
   },
   {