# Sitemap Location
Sitemap: https://www.sportscourant.com/sitemap_index.xml

# General directives for all bots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /?rest_route=
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Specific directives for Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /tag/

# Specific directives for Bingbot
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Disallow: /tag/

# Block problematic bots
User-agent: BadBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AnotherBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# Crawl delay for all bots to prevent server overload
Crawl-delay: 10