User-agent: *

# Block WordPress core directories, admin area, and include files
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# Block Ads directory and its contents
Disallow: /ads/

# Block common files that don't need indexing
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Block WordPress search results pages (often low quality/duplicate content)
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/  # Use this line as well if your theme uses /search/ permalinks

# Allow crawlers access to uploaded files (images, pdfs etc. in media library)
# This overrides the Disallow rules for parent directories if needed.
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://eleganthoopoe.ae/sitemap_index.xml

# Block URL parameters causing duplicate content (if any beyond ?s=)
Disallow: /*?utm_source=
Disallow: /*?some_filter=

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