# Robots.txt — Alpha Wildlife
# Last updated: 2025-11-07
# Purpose: Control crawling, reduce duplicates, and keep rendering assets open.

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 1

# Allow assets for proper rendering
Allow: /wp-includes/js/
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/
Allow: /wp-content/cache/

# Block low-value system/admin areas
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt

# Block duplicate/thin content
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /?attachment_id=*
Disallow: /trackback/

# Block archives if not used for SEO
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /author/

# Block feeds & pagination
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /*/page/*

# Block parameter-based duplicates
Disallow: /*?replytocom=*
Disallow: /*?amp=*
Disallow: /*?share=*
Disallow: /*?orderby=*
Disallow: /*?filter=*
Disallow: /*?*

# Allow common analytics params
Allow: /*?utm_*

User-agent: *
Disallow: /1nashville-bird-removal/

# XML sitemap (Rank Math)
Sitemap: https://alphawildlife.com/sitemap_index.xml