User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Crawl-delay: 10


User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

# Enhanced robots.txt for WordPress
# Last updated: 2025

# Block all bots from sensitive WordPress areas
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /wp-config.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /wp-trackback.php
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /author/
Crawl-delay: 5

# Allow major search engines with specific rules
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /*?*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Crawl-delay: 3

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /*?*
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Crawl-delay: 5

# Block aggressive SEO/marketing bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

# Block social media bots that can be resource intensive
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Twitterbot
Crawl-delay: 5

# Block AI training bots (optional - remove if you want AI to crawl)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

# Sitemap location (update with your actual sitemap URL)
Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml