Wordpress Robots.txt Best Practices - How to Optimize WordPress Robots.txt [Still true in 2023!]

Improve your site management with these WordPress Robots.txt best practices. The robots txt file, if one exists on your site, tells bots what they are and are not allowed to access. These bots include search engine crawlers, SEO software and even malicious software.

Discover how to create and optimize the WordPress robots.txt file in this tutorial. This tutorial is the robots.txt file explained for beginners.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/site_map.xml

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Robots.txt Google Search Console link: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en

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