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robots.txt Blocks Important Pages on WordPress
Your robots.txt file contains Disallow rules that may prevent search engines from crawling important pages on your site.
Issue ID: CRAWL-ROBOTS-BLOCKS-001Severity: majorEffort: S
Why this matters
Your robots.txt file contains Disallow rules that may prevent search engines from crawling important pages on your site. This affects how clearly search engines understand the page and how persuasive it looks in search results.
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How to fix this on WordPress
Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.
- 1Inspect the page and theme output.
- 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
- 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.
After you fix it
- ✓Use the robots.txt tester in Google Search Console to verify important URLs are allowed
Same fix, other platforms
Fix robots.txt blocks important pages on a different CMS
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