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# FruitySlots Robots.txt (Optimised – November 2025)
# Purpose: maximise crawl efficiency & prioritise key money pages
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User-agent: *
# --- WordPress Core ---
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
# --- Author Pages ---
Allow: /author/*$
Allow: /author/*/$
Disallow: /author/*?*
Disallow: /author/*/*
# --- Query Strings & Tracking Parameters ---
Disallow: */go/*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /*?fbclid*
Disallow: /*?s=*
Disallow: /*?utm*
Disallow: /*?game_provider*
Disallow: /*?paged*
Disallow: /*?ref*
Disallow: /*?query-*-page*
# --- Forum Section ---
Allow: /forum/$
Disallow: /forum/uploads/
Disallow: /forum/applications/
Disallow: /forum/interface/
Disallow: /forum/system/
Disallow: /forum/staff/
Disallow: /forum/gallery/
Disallow: /forum/tags/
Disallow: /forum/search/
Disallow: /forum/discover/
Disallow: /forum/leaderboard/
Disallow: /forum/login/
Disallow: /forum/register/
Disallow: /forum/lostpassword/
Disallow: /forum/profile/
Disallow: /forum/cookie/
Disallow: /forum/online/
Disallow: /forum/markallread/
Disallow: /forum/startTopic/
Disallow: /forum/*?sortby=
Disallow: /forum/*?filter=
Disallow: /forum/*?tab=
Disallow: /forum/*?do=
Disallow: /forum/*ref=
Disallow: /forum/*?forumId*
Disallow: /forum/*?advancedSearchForm=
Disallow: /forum/index.php?*/profile/
Disallow: /forum/index.php?*/gallery/
# --- Staging / Development / Miscellaneous ---
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /new/
Disallow: /beta/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /testing/
# --- CDN & Cache Directories ---
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
# --- Sitemap ---
Sitemap: https://fruityslots.com/sitemap_index.xml
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# Image and Media Crawlers
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# Googlebot-Image – stop crawling forum uploads & redundant media
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /forum/uploads/
Disallow: /forum/gallery/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
# Bingbot-Media – equivalent for Microsoft/Bing image/video bots
User-agent: Bingbot-Media
Disallow: /forum/uploads/
Disallow: /forum/gallery/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
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