User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Specifically allow all Google bots to ensure Discover and News indexing
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

# Block only sensitive backend folders (standard security practice)
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Reference your sitemaps
Sitemap: https://theusnewsdesk.com/sitemap_index.xml