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Google Webmaster Tools - Blocked urls (2)

by mandos123
1 replies
  • SEO
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Hello,

I was just checking my google webmaster tools and checked for robots.txt

There was this:

robots.txt file Blocked URLs Downloaded Status
mywebsite.com 2 3 hours ago 200 (Success)

How do I know which URLs are being blocked? my robots.txt file looks OK for me:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Sitemap: http://mywebsite. com/sitemapindex.xml

Should I be worried? my website homepage is gone from google.com as well (not de-indexed). Not sure if it's caused by this
#blocked #google #tools #urls #webmaster
  • Profile picture of the author Leo Wadsworth
    Because your robots.txt file has disallowed (blocked) two URL paths, Google just counts them as two URLs. The two paths you have blocked are good ones to block. Neither one should be publicly visible, and so its good to keep them out of Google's directory.

    In your post, there is a space in the sitemap URL -- is that really in the file? You should check to make sure that Google has found and is using the sitemap file.

    Neither thing, though, would really affect your rankings much.
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