Google Webmaster Tools error “Url blocked by robots.txt.”
Try to go Settings –> Reading, take a look if Search Engine Visibility is checked, and in this case unchecked. Now the robots.txt has disallow only wp-admin path
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Google is unable to crawl Robots.txt file of my website and please help me
Today I got a mail from Google webmasters, that Google bots are unable to find robots.txt file of my website. This is not actually a problem (from crawling perspective at least, it might be for excluding things from crawling, which the file primarily used for). The robots.txt is neither mandatory on necessary for your site … Read more
How to view the code for a certain page?
If they are 404, you can’t put a noindex on them! You can put rel=nofollow on the links that link to the removed pages. It also helps to have a sitemap so that Google can track changes more easily.
No exposure on search engines
Please go to Settings > Reading or wp-admin/options-reading.php If it’s not unchecked it will not allow search engines to reach. For further modification information related to robots you can use the below plugin to modify robots.txt file: Plugin – Multipart robots.txt editor To see your robots.txt file you would visit the link as: http://www.example.com/robots.txt
Disable Ajax for Spiders
Here’s a programatic method. What it does it checks if an ajax request is running and if the useragent to see if it is in the defined whitelist and if it is then it continues loading wp as normal, else it dies. I used registered_taxonomy because it’s the second hook in the hook loading processes: … Read more
wp_redirect and search engine bots
You can always noindex those pages from your robots.txt file. User-agent: * Disallow: /all-bots/noindex-this-page.html
Question about robots.txt file on WordPress site
Here is some info about robots.txt. It looks like your example wouldn’t work correctly with the * but, it looks to me like you’d be ok if you just removed the *. You can always check the robots.txt at with a validator like this one
Why are some user agents still getting a meta robots tag with noindex from my site?
I was editing stuff in default-filters.php and then cleared my wp cache and it finally went away. Then I undid my change to default-filters.php and it stayed away. So I’m inclined to think, this was a caching issue?
Robots.txt file not updating
Robots.txt file not updating
How to noindex, follow a specific category wordpress?
There are several robots.txt generators online. Here is one of my favorites. After you’ve generated your file, I highly recommend testing it with Google’s Webmaster Tools tester. I’ve done this for dozens of sites, and never have a problem. Just remember the following: Most WordPress sites treat categories as if they’re folders/directories. So, to make … Read more