User-agent: *

# --- Block low-value query-string variants (tracking / comment-reply / AMP dupes) ---
# These generate a "new" crawlable URL for every existing post without adding content.
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*?share=
Disallow: /*?amp=1
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=
Disallow: /*?ref=

# --- Block internal search results and author archives (thin/duplicate) ---
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /author/

# --- Block WordPress system paths (never useful to crawl) ---
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# --- Quiz plugin: keep pages crawlable for users but stop them competing for index ---
# (Do the actual "noindex" via the SEO plugin meta tag, not robots.txt -- see guide.
#  Blocking here would also stop Google seeing a possible noindex tag on the page.)
# Disallow left OFF on purpose -- see implementation guide, section 3.

# --- Sitemaps ---
Sitemap: https://currentaffairsmalayalam.com/sitemap_index.xml