# Allow all search engines
User-agent: *

# Block WordPress core directories that don't need to be indexed
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

# Block unnecessary URLs that can dilute SEO value
Disallow: /?s=  # Blocks search result pages
Disallow: /wp-json/  # Blocks REST API endpoints
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php  # Blocks XML-RPC file (not needed for SEO)

# Block feeds and trackbacks, which are duplicates of content
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*/trackback/

# Block specific query parameters
Disallow: /*?replytocom  # Blocks URLs with replytocom parameter
Disallow: /*?utm_*  # Blocks URLs with tracking parameters

# Allow indexing of images, CSS, and JavaScript files if needed
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*.css
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*.js

# XML Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.ediconnect.ro/sitemap_index.xml