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# Optimized robots.txt for WordPress
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User-agent: *
# Block sensitive or duplicate content
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

# Allow admin-ajax for frontend features (important)
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Crawl-delay (optional; adjust for slower servers)
Crawl-delay: 20

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