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# Robots.txt for elevatepaintingtx.com
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# Global directives for all user agents
User-agent: *
# Block backend, sensitive, and low-value paths
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?attachment_id=
Disallow: /*?utm_*
Disallow: /*?fbclid=*
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /*/embed/

# Allow AJAX admin-ajax for proper functionality
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Allow essential resource directories and file types
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.jpeg$
Allow: /*.gif$
Allow: /*.svg$
Allow: /*.webp$
Allow: /*.ico$
Allow: /*.woff$
Allow: /*.woff2$
Allow: /*.ttf$
Allow: /*.eot$
Allow: /*.pdf$

# Specific bots: allow full access to major search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# Block unwanted bots if needed (example: Baiduspider)
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://elevatepaintingtx.com/sitemap_index.xml
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User-agent: *
Disallow:

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