User-agent: *
# Basic restrictions for WordPress
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Blocking feeds (create duplicate content)
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */trackback/

# Blocking pagination (pages /page/2/, etc.)
# This will force Google to focus on articles, not lists of announcements
Disallow: */page/*

# Blocking technical JS and plugin styles that do not affect rendering
Disallow: /wp-includes/*.js$
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/*.js$
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/*.css$

# Blocking junk parameters (UTM parameters, referrals, filters)
# This Clears the "Crawled - not indexed" list of duplicates
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?from=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?replytocom=

# Allow indexing of images and core theme files
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*.js
Allow: /wp-content/themes/*.css

# Specifying the primary sitemap
Sitemap: https://skinive.com/sitemap_index.xml