# Block known bad bot
User-agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

# Default rules
User-agent: *
# Core admin area
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Allow CSS/JS so Google can render pages
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$

# (Optional) keep render-critical assets open
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/
Allow: /wp-includes/js/

# (Optional) keep these out of the index via robots (not a substitute for meta noindex)
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php

# (Optional) throttle some common scrapers; harmless for Google/Bing etc.
# User-agent: AhrefsBot
# Disallow: /
# User-agent: SemrushBot
# Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# Point crawlers to your XML sitemap (Yoast/RankMath typically use this path)
Sitemap: https://www.spectodesign.com/sitemap_index.xml