# Global rules
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block low-value or duplicate paths
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /*/comments/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php

# Block duplicate query parameters
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?fbclid=

# Allow important assets
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://surecheckbackground.com/sitemap_index.xml

# Crawl delay for aggressive bots
User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 10

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 10