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User-agent: *

# Reduce crawl rate for all bots (optional but helps with server load)
Crawl-delay: 30

# WordPress admin area – no need to crawl
Disallow: /wp-admin/

# WooCommerce-specific paths – protect logs, cache files, and downloads
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/

# WP-Optimize plugin – prevents exposure of internal performance data
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wpo-plugins-tables-list.json

# The Events Calendar plugin – block archives and paginated/filter views
Disallow: /events/
Disallow: /event-tags/
Disallow: /event-categories/
Disallow: /event-locations/
Disallow: /event-organizers/
Disallow: /?post_type=tribe_events
Disallow: /*eventDisplay=day
Disallow: /*eventDisplay=photo
Disallow: /*&paged=
Disallow: /*eventDate=
Disallow: /page/

# CleanTalk Anti-Spam endpoint – block bot-triggered pixel spam
Disallow: /wp-json/cleantalk-antispam/

# WordPress search results – avoid duplicate content indexing
Disallow: /?s=

Sitemap: https://stuartholme.com/sitemap_index.xml
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# END YOAST BLOCK