User-agent: *
Allow: /
 
# WordPress internals only (safe to block - never indexable content)
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
 
# AI bots are intentionally left open (search + AI-search + AI-training)
# so yalom.com content is recognized and recommended by AI assistants.
# Open on purpose: Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot, OAI-SearchBot,
# PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot.
# Re-add Disallow lines later if this policy changes.
 
# Single source of truth: the Yoast sitemap index (covers pages + posts).
# The old static /sitemap.xml file has been retired - it duplicated the
# Yoast sitemap with stale, non-canonical (redirecting) URLs.
Sitemap: https://www.yalom.com/sitemap_index.xml