User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block admin area from indexing
Disallow: /admin/

# NOTE: /listings/ is deliberately NOT blocked. Every /listings/* URL now 301s to
# /inventory, and Google can only act on a redirect it is allowed to crawl. While
# this path was disallowed, the already-indexed /listings/ entry could never be
# reprocessed, so it sat in the index under its old WordPress title competing with
# /inventory. Blocking only makes sense for URLs Google has never indexed.

# Block leftover WordPress query-param URLs. These all canonicalize to /
# but waste crawl budget — Google has crawled ~80 of these and parked them
# in "crawled — currently not indexed". None of these params are used by
# the current app, so blocking is safe.
#
# No "?" in these patterns, deliberately. A literal ? only ever appears once in a
# URL, so "/*?posts_per_page=" matched solely when the param came FIRST:
# /?posts_per_page=12 was blocked but /?body=sedan&posts_per_page=12 was not,
# because there the param follows an "&". Dropping the ? makes * cover both.
Disallow: /*taxonomy=
Disallow: /*security=
Disallow: /*featured_top=
Disallow: /*posts_per_page=
# Other dead params from the old WordPress car-listing theme. Kept to params the
# current app does NOT read. Do not add make=, model=, bodyType=, minPrice=,
# maxPrice=, minYear=, maxYear=, features= or sort= — those are live inventory
# filters, and every one of them canonicalizes to a page we want indexed
# (/inventory?make=Honda -> /inventory/make/Honda). Blocking a URL stops Google
# reading its canonical, which is the same reason /listings/ is not blocked above.
Disallow: /*serie=
Disallow: /*ca-year=
Disallow: /*condition=

# Sitemap
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