Should Wp-content, Wp-includes & Wp-admin be blocked via robots.txt?

  • Hi guys,

    I was wondering what your thoughts are about blocking search engines from indexing these three wordpress directories. Would it help, harm or not effect search engine ranking?

    I figure it can’t hurt since the actual site content is inside the database, but what do you guys think?

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  • Won’t affect search rank, and will keep your sensitive directories from being easily discovered by hackers. I block all these on multiple WP sites.

    User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /wp-admin/*
Disallow: /wp-content/*
Disallow: /wp-includes/*
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/*
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */comments
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