User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Block low-value or duplicate content
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /*?s=*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?utm_*
Disallow: /*?ref=*
Disallow: /*?amp*
Disallow: /*?state_name=*
Disallow: /*?order=*
Disallow: /*?filter=*
Disallow: /*?sort=*
Disallow: /*?author=*
Disallow: /*?replytocom=*

# v2026-04-21: REMOVED `Disallow: /*.pdf$`
# Reason: 35 legacy PDFs at /wp-content/uploads/*.pdf must be crawlable so Google
# can see the 301 → files.govtjobsalert.in redirect and update its index.
# Indexing is now controlled by X-Robots-Tag: noindex on files.* (R2 Worker/Transform Rule).

# v2026-04-21 SEO cleanup — stop Google discovering viewer junk + campaign tracking
# (184+186+13+16 URLs currently sitting in "Crawled – currently not indexed")
Disallow: /*?_page=
Disallow: /*&_page=
Disallow: /*?pdfID=
Disallow: /*&pdfID=
Disallow: /*?weekdayJdUid=
Disallow: /*&weekdayJdUid=
Disallow: /wpn-sw.js
Disallow: /category/*/feed/

# Allow critical resources (so pages render fully for indexing & ads)
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.jpeg$
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.webp$
Allow: /wp-json/
Allow: /feed/

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