diff --git a/deployment/.htaccess b/deployment/.htaccess
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+# Disallow known bad bots
+SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "MJ12bot" bad_bot
+SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "AhrefsBot" bad_bot
+SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "SemrushBot" bad_bot
+Deny from env=bad_bot
+
+# Rate limit using mod_ratelimit (if available)
+<IfModule mod_ratelimit.c>
+    SetOutputFilter RATE_LIMIT
+    SetEnv rate-limit 400
+</IfModule>
+
+# Prevent crawlers from indexing results pages
+<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
+    RewriteEngine On
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/results/thunderball
+    RewriteRule .* - [F]
+</IfModule>
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diff --git a/deployment/robots.txt b/deployment/robots.txt
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+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /results/
+Disallow: /tickets/
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