# robots.txt for https://alchemize.io
# Updated 2026-10-07 (aligned with maxistechnology.com setup)

User-agent: *
# --- WordPress admin and login ---
# admin-ajax.php must stay open: front-end features and forms use it
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php

# --- Internal site search (all URL formats) ---
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*&s=
Disallow: /search/

# --- Comment reply and trackback URLs (duplicate copies of posts) ---
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: */trackback/

# --- Intentionally NOT blocked ---
# /wp-content/ and /wp-includes/: Google needs CSS and JS to render pages,
#   and /wp-content/uploads/ holds images and PDFs.
# /tag/, /category/, /author/: kept out of Google with a "noindex" meta tag
#   (Yoast SEO). Google can only see that tag if it can crawl the page.
# /wp-json/: some plugins load front-end content through the REST API.
# /feed/: the main RSS feed helps Google discover new posts.

Sitemap: https://alchemize.io/sitemap_index.xml

# AI/LLM guidance file (informational): https://alchemize.io/llms.txt