User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/

# Faceted navigation and sorting (added 2026-09-23)
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# These all canonicalise to the clean category URL (the filter_color ones are
# answered 403 by Cloudflare), so crawling them produces nothing. filter_color combines freely, so the
# URL space is effectively unbounded.
# Measured in Search Console on 2026-09-23: these accounted for 44,001 of the
# 51,900 URLs Google had found but not indexed - 32,086 "Alternate page with
# proper canonical tag" plus 11,915 "Blocked due to access forbidden (403)",
# the latter produced by the Cloudflare rule "Block filters attack" challenging
# filter_color URLs, which a crawler cannot solve.
# That is ~85% of everything Google knows about this domain, which is why the
# site's own landing pages sit in "Discovered - currently not indexed".
Disallow: *filter_
Disallow: *orderby=
Disallow: *per_row=
Disallow: *per_page=
Disallow: *shop_view=
Disallow: *product_view=
Disallow: *min_price=
Disallow: *max_price=
Disallow: *gad_source=
Disallow: *wc-ajax=
Disallow: /product-tag/
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# START YOAST BLOCK
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Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /?
Disallow: *?s=
Disallow: *&s=
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: */embed$
Disallow: */xmlrpc.php
Disallow: *utm*=
Disallow: *openstat=

Sitemap: https://theceocreative.com/sitemap_index.xml
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# END YOAST BLOCK