Where can I find robots txt?
A robots. txt file lives at the root of your site. So, for site www.example.com , the robots. txt file lives at www.example.com/robots.txt .
Do I need a robots txt file?
No, a robots. txt file is not required for a website. If a bot comes to your website and it doesn’t have one, it will just crawl your website and index pages as it normally would. txt file is only needed if you want to have more control over what is being crawled.
Does robots txt help SEO?
If you tell search engine bots to only crawl your most useful content, the bots will crawl and index your site based on that content alone. txt the right way, you can tell search engine bots to spend their crawl budgets wisely. And that’s what makes the robots. txt file so useful in an SEO context.
What does indexed, though blocked by robots.txt mean?
“Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” indicates that Google indexed URLs even though they were blocked by your robots.txt file. Google has marked these URLs as “Valid with warning” because they’re unsure whether you want to have these URLs indexed. In this article you’ll learn how to fix this issue.
What to do if Google page is blocked by robots.txt?
If you don’t want the page indexed at all, you have to let Google crawl it and use the tag. Keep in mind that if the page is blocked by robots.txt, Google will never be able to see that tag and the URL will still be indexed.
Is there a noindex directive in robots.txt?
In 2019, Google announced that it no longer supports a noindex: directive in robots.txt. Cool…! As per my analysis, you want to implement noindex & disallow for particular pages or category or tags.
Why is Google not indexing my Web page?
It isn’t indexing the content of the page, just the URL itself, possibly along with anchor text of links that point to it. Google says: