# Block all bots from sensitive areas
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-register.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /private_html/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /backups/
Disallow: /softaculous_backups/
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?yith_wcan=

# Block bad bots completely
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

# Block Meta/Facebook crawler (hammers YITH filter URLs causing server overload)
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# Block ClaudeBot from add-to-cart and filter URLs
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?yith_wcan=

# Allow good bots
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?yith_wcan=

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?yith_wcan=

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /*?add-to-cart=
Disallow: /*?yith_wcan=

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://sonda.it/sitemap.xml