# Allow AJAX calls
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Allow Search Engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# Block AI bots and irrelevant crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PiplBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: megaindex
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Pinterestbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

# Block everything else
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /wp-admin/

# Block paths
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/

# Additional rules
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt

# Handling Search
Disallow: /*?s=*
Disallow: /search/*

# Handling Parameters & Filters
Disallow: /?utm*
Disallow: /?filter*
Disallow: /?trk*
Disallow: /?get_image*
Disallow: /*?srsltid=*
Disallow: /*?gad_source=*
Disallow: /*?fbclid=*

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