# ========================================
# ✅ BLOCK aggressive and unnecessary bots
# ========================================
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YisouSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

# ========================================
# ✅ GENERAL RULES
# ========================================
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /? # block queries on root
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: *?s=
Disallow: *&s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /users/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: *utm*=
Disallow: *openstat=

Allow: */uploads
Allow: /*/*.js
Allow: /*/*.css
Allow: /wp-*.png
Allow: /wp-*.jpg
Allow: /wp-*.jpeg
Allow: /wp-*.gif
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php