User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-content/cache/ Disallow: /*wpr_t= Disallow: /cart Disallow: /checkout Disallow: /feed Disallow: /my-account/request-warranty Disallow: /pay Disallow: /payment-confirmation-2 Disallow: /payment-failed Disallow: /payment-failed-2 Disallow: /product-cta Disallow: /saved-quote Disallow: /track-order Disallow: /upsells Disallow: /wishlist Disallow: /wishlist-create Disallow: /wishlist-manage Disallow: /wishlist-public Disallow: /wishlist-search Disallow: /wishlist-searchp Disallow: /00-test-page Disallow: /?packages_list=1&orderby=price-fastest Disallow: /*/feed$ Disallow: /*/feed/$ Disallow: /*?add-to-cart= Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Allow: /shop/custom-wheels/ Allow: /shop/tires/ # ---------------------------- # NEW RULES TO REDUCE CRAWL LOAD # (Keeps SEO & AI snippets intact) # ---------------------------- # Stop crawling pagination (page/2, page/205, etc) Disallow: */page/ # Stop price filters, sort-by, and parameter spam Disallow: /*?orderby= Disallow: /*?min_price= Disallow: /*?max_price= Disallow: /*?filter_ Disallow: /*?rating_filter= Disallow: /*?offset= Disallow: /*?per_page= Disallow: /*?product_count= # Prevent crawlers from hitting internal search result URLs Disallow: /*?s= Disallow: /*/?s= # Block popup plugin asset folder Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/pum/ # Block WooCommerce AJAX endpoints Disallow: /*?wc-ajax= # Ensure normal clean URLs (categories, products, landing pages) stay crawlable Allow: /*$ Sitemap: https://wheelsasap.com/sitemaps.xml # ---------------------------- # AI / Large Crawler rate-limit area # (unchanged from your original) # ---------------------------- User-agent: AI2Bot User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: Applebot User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: GoogleOther User-agent: GoogleOther-Image User-agent: GoogleOther-Video User-agent: ICC-Crawler User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler User-agent: ImagesiftBot User-agent: Kangaroo Bot User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler User-agent: Webzio-Extended User-agent: YouBot User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: facebookexternalhit User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 User-agent: img2dataset User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: Seachatlas Crawl-delay: 10 # ---------------------------- # Hard blocks — heavy offenders (see downtime debug 2026-08) # ---------------------------- # Meta AI scrapers — obey Disallow, ignore Crawl-delay User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher Disallow: / # Third-party SEO scrapers — no value to this site User-agent: AhrefsBot User-agent: DataForSeoBot User-agent: SemrushBot User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / # Bing — legit, throttle (also set crawl rate in Bing Webmaster Tools) User-agent: bingbot Crawl-delay: 10 Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/identity-verification-for-woocommerce/