# Robots.txt for WordPress auction sites # https://www.matan.org.il/robots.txt User-agent: * Allow: / # Block admin area Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php # Block WordPress system files Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: /wp-cron.php Disallow: /wp-mail.php Disallow: /wp-trackback.php Disallow: /wp-signup.php Disallow: /wp-activate.php Disallow: /wp-comments-post.php Disallow: /wp-links-opml.php # Block search and comments Disallow: /?s= Disallow: /*?s= Disallow: /*&s= Disallow: /search/ Disallow: *?replytocom Disallow: /feed/ Disallow: /trackback/ Disallow: /comments/feed/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /wp-comments-post.php # Block utility WordPress pages Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /category/ Disallow: /date/ Disallow: /attachment/ # Allow uploads Allow: /wp-content/uploads/ Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.jpg Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.jpeg Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.png Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.gif Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.pdf Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.doc Allow: /wp-content/uploads/*.docx # Auction system rules # Allow public auctions, lots, and pagination Allow: /auction/ Allow: /auction/*/part/ Allow: /auction/*/page/ Allow: /auction/*/lot* # Block private auction paths Disallow: /auction/*/admin/ Disallow: /auction/*/private/ Disallow: /bidspirit/* # Block search and filter pages (uco-auctions plugin) # Only URLs with query parameters are blocked; clean auction and lot pages remain accessible Disallow: /*?category_by= Disallow: /*&category_by= Disallow: /*?phrase_by= Disallow: /*&phrase_by= Disallow: /*?sort_by= Disallow: /*&sort_by= Disallow: /*?is_sold= Disallow: /*&is_sold= Disallow: /*?per_page= Disallow: /*&per_page= Disallow: /*?taxonomy= Disallow: /*&taxonomy= # Block search and filter pages (Woocommerce plugin) Disallow: /*?orderby= Disallow: /*&orderby= Disallow: /*?page= Disallow: /*&page= Disallow: /*?filter_ Disallow: /*&filter_ Disallow: /*?query_type_ Disallow: /*&query_type_ Disallow: /*?min_price= Disallow: /*&min_price= Disallow: /*?max_price= Disallow: /*&max_price= Disallow: /*?rating_filter= Disallow: /*&rating_filter= Disallow: /*?filter_ Disallow: /*&filter_ Disallow: /*?wc-ajax= Disallow: /*&wc-ajax= Disallow: /wc-api/ Disallow: /*?add-to-cart= Disallow: /*&add-to-cart= Disallow: /*?remove_item= Disallow: /*&remove_item= Disallow: /*?add_to_wishlist= Disallow: /*&add_to_wishlist= Disallow: /*?action=yith-woocompare-add-product Disallow: /*?currency= Disallow: /*¤cy= Disallow: /*?lang= Disallow: /*&lang= # Block API and AJAX (except public actions) #Disallow: /wp-json/ #Disallow: /wp-json/wp/v2/ # Block cache and temporary files Disallow: /wp-content/cache/ Disallow: /wp-content/backup-db/ Disallow: /wp-content/backups/ Disallow: /wp-content/upgrade/ Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/cache/ Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/backup/ Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/backups/ Disallow: /wp-content/wphb-logs/ Disallow: /wp-content/wphb-cache/ # Block logs and debug files Disallow: /wp-content/debug.log Disallow: /wp-content/error_log Disallow: /wp-content/error.log Disallow: /wp-content/php_error.log Disallow: /wp-content/php_errors.log # Block configuration files Disallow: /.htaccess Disallow: /.htpasswd Disallow: /web.config Disallow: /robots.txt.bak Disallow: /sitemap.xml.bak # UTM block Disallow: /*?utm_ Disallow: /*&utm_ Disallow: /*?gclid= Disallow: /*&gclid= Disallow: /*?fbclid= Disallow: /*&fbclid= Disallow: /*?yclid= Disallow: /*&yclid= # Search engine crawlers User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: Slurp Allow: / Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: / Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: Baiduspider Allow: / Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: YandexBot Allow: / Crawl-delay: 10 # Block aggressive bots User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: DotBot Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / # Sitemap Sitemap: https://www.matan.org.il/sitemap.xml