User-agent: *

# --- Core WordPress File Disallows ---
# Block all core administrative and include folders.
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

# --- Crawl Budget Optimization ---
# Block non-media plugin and theme files from being crawled.
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/

# Block internal search result pages, which are low-quality, duplicate content.
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/

# Block other non-public WordPress files and pages.
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php

# --- Allow Directives for Critical Files ---
# Explicitly ALLOW critical AJAX and asset files that Google 
# may need for rendering, even if their parent folder is disallowed.
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

# --- Sitemap Directive ---
# This is the primary directive to tell all search engines where our XML sitemap is located.
# [IMPORTANT: Replace with the client's actual sitemap URL]
Sitemap: https://gouldinjurylaw.com/sitemap_index.xml