# START YOAST BLOCK
# ---------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: https://www.siegemedia.com/sitemap_index.xml
# ---------------------------
# END YOAST BLOCK

# Block the wp-includes directory
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# Allow important resources
User-agent: *
Allow: /wp-includes/js/

# Block wp-admin but allow admin-ajax.php
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block sensitive files
User-agent: *
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# Additional best practices
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /?s=

# Crawl-delay (optional, for reducing server load)
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10