User-agent: *
# Existing Blocks
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?add_to_wishlist=*
Disallow: /wishlist/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

# New Blocks (Addressing the URL Factory & Crawl Budget)
# ---------------------------------------------------
# Block shopping cart actions (Add & Remove)
Disallow: /*add-to-cart=*
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /*remove_item=

# Block technical fragments and AJAX loops
Disallow: /*jet_blog_ajax=
Disallow: /*yith_wcan=
Disallow: /*nocache=
Disallow: /*pwgc=

# Block specific dynamic patterns that bloat the crawl
# This targets the ?nocache combinations we saw in the reports
Disallow: /*?*jet_blog_ajax=
Disallow: /*?*nocache=

# Sitemap Reference
Sitemap: https://third-ear.com/sitemap_index.xml

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Crawl-delay: 15

User-agent: Applebot
Crawl-delay: 15

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Crawl-delay: 15

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Crawl-delay: 15

User-agent: FacebookBot
Crawl-delay: 15

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