# CAR CRUISE FINDER - UPDATED ROBOTS.TXT - 2026-09-12
#
# BEFORE DEPLOYING:
# Set page-level noindex on venue/organizer archives you want excluded
# from search; this file deliberately leaves those pages crawlable.
# The sitemap entry is retained from the supplied file; its live XML
# could not be independently verified during this update.
#
# Unmatched URLs are allowed by default. Do not add broad Allow rules
# for /car-show/ or /car-shows/: they can override parameter blocks.
# robots.txt controls crawling, not indexing, canonicals or redirects.

# Preserve social link-preview access.
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: *

# WordPress administration; retain front-end AJAX access.
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Legacy calendar views, not the new curated date landing pages.
Disallow: /car-show/day/
Disallow: /car-show/month/
Disallow: /car-show/week/
Disallow: /car-show/today/
Disallow: /car-show/*/day/
Disallow: /car-show/*/month/
Disallow: /car-show/*/week/
Disallow: /car-shows/day/
Disallow: /car-shows/month/
Disallow: /car-shows/week/
Disallow: /car-shows/*/day/
Disallow: /car-shows/*/month/
Disallow: /car-shows/*/week/

# The Events Calendar alternate views, filters, and exports.
# Match parameter names at the start of a query or immediately after &.
Disallow: /*?eventDisplay=
Disallow: /*?*&eventDisplay=
Disallow: /*?eventDate=
Disallow: /*?*&eventDate=
Disallow: /*?tribe-bar-
Disallow: /*?*&tribe-bar-
Disallow: /*?tribe_
Disallow: /*?*&tribe_
Disallow: /*?ical=
Disallow: /*?*&ical=
Disallow: /*?outlook-
Disallow: /*?*&outlook-
Disallow: /*?related_series=
Disallow: /*?*&related_series=

# Custom calendar navigation and arbitrary date filtering.
Disallow: /*?ccf-calendar-month=
Disallow: /*?*&ccf-calendar-month=
Disallow: /*?ccf-date=
Disallow: /*?*&ccf-date=
Disallow: /*?ccf-date-range=
Disallow: /*?*&ccf-date-range=

# Location-reset action parameter identified in the supplied file.
Disallow: /*?ccf_reset_location=
Disallow: /*?*&ccf_reset_location=

# Internal WordPress searches and feeds: crawl-control policy.
# Already-indexed unwanted URLs need crawlable noindex cleanup separately.
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*?*&s=
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /*/feed/

# Intentionally crawlable (no broad Allow rules are necessary):
# - Real event pages under /car-show/ and valid recurrence URLs.
# - /series/, /car-shows/, geographic categories and city/county tags.
# - Curated /car-shows/today/ and geographic /today/ landing pages.
# - Clean /this-week/, /this-weekend/ and /this-month/ landing pages.
# - Pagination using ccf-page (do NOT block all ccf- parameters).
# - CSS, JavaScript, images, uploads, plugins, themes and wp-includes.
# - Venue/organizer pages, so Google can read their noindex tags.
# - Legacy taxonomy URLs, so Google can follow their corrected redirects.
# - Equivalent fbclid/gclid/utm_ variants: use clean page canonicals.
# - Directory parameters (dosrch/wpbdp_view/listingfields): retained
#   pending review because some directory landing pages use them.
#
# No blanket noindex-after-page-N or occurrence-to-series canonical
# policy is imposed here; those are page-level decisions, not robots
# directives. Keep valid pagination and event occurrences crawlable.

# Replace only if a different sitemap endpoint is verified as authoritative.
Sitemap: https://carcruisefinder.com/sitemap_index.xml