# Allow all bots, AI crawlers, and search engines
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block access to WordPress Admin and Login pages for security
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Allow the admin-ajax file because some plugins need it to display content properly
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block access to internal search results (prevents duplicate content issues in SEO)
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /page/*/?s=

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://tracenchase.com/sitemap_index.xml