# START OPTIMIZED ROBOTS.TXT FOR WORDPRESS

User-agent: *
# Block admin and login pages
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php

# Allow admin-ajax (needed for some plugins and frontend features)
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block unnecessary WordPress folders
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /?rest_route=

# Block duplicate content and feeds
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /?s=        # block search results

# Block plugin and theme files
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/

# Block common query strings that waste crawl budget
Disallow: /*?replytocom
Disallow: /*?utm_     # UTM tracking parameters

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://blogswave.xyz/sitemap_index.xml

# END OPTIMIZED ROBOTS.TXT