# DRIFT crawl policy
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Low-value / utility (save crawl budget)
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?p=
Disallow: /*?attachment_id=
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /*/trackback/

# REST API. Carries no search value and was 13% of Googlebot's requests.
# /wp-json/ alone returns ~650KB and /wp-json/wp/v2/posts ~240KB per fetch.
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /*?rest_route=
Disallow: /*&rest_route=

# oEmbed endpoints duplicate article content as JSON
Disallow: /*?embed=
Disallow: /*/embed/

Sitemap: https://driftzine.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://driftzine.com/news-sitemap.xml