# prolifics.ai robots.txt
# Physical file added 2026-10-19. NOTE: a physical robots.txt overrides the
# virtual one WordPress/Rank Math generates, so edit THIS FILE, not the Rank Math
# robots.txt editor (Rank Math will show a notice that it cannot edit it).

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

# The Events Calendar generates effectively unlimited date-paginated URLs.
# One backlinks crawler spent 54,714 requests on these in ~10 days. They are
# duplicate content and should not be indexed by anyone.
Disallow: /*?tribe-bar-date=
Disallow: /*&tribe-bar-date=
Disallow: /*?eventDisplay=
Disallow: /*&eventDisplay=
Disallow: /*ical=1
Disallow: /*?outlook-ical=
Disallow: /*&outlook-ical=

# Theme search result URLs - duplicate content, no index value.
Disallow: /*et_pb_searchform_submit=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*&s=

# SERankingBacklinksBot was 18.9% of all traffic (162,308 requests).
# Remove this block if you rely on SE Ranking reporting.
User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Crawl-delay: 10

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