Editing Robots.txt file with Wordpress Installation on Hostgator

illinimatt81 · 10-20-2009, 07:26 PM

Hi,

I think I may be having an issue not getting indexed at all, even when searching for myurl.com in google due to a robots.txt file.

I have wordpress selected under privacy options to make my blog public however when entering my www.myurl.com/robots.txt I see the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow:
It seems from doing some searching and reading that this code would be preventing me from being indexed, correct? I have searched my cPanel and server and can't find a way to access it.

It seems I should edit it to the following:
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Anyone have any suggestions how to access this file? I have already tried searching for it in file manager in cPanel and on my ftp server. A file is there somewhere!

10-20-2009, 07:26 PM	#1
illinimatt81 Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 17 Thanks: 8 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Editing Robots.txt file with Wordpress Installation on Hostgator Hi, I think I may be having an issue not getting indexed at all, even when searching for myurl.com in google due to a robots.txt file. I have wordpress selected under privacy options to make my blog public however when entering my www.myurl.com/robots.txt I see the following: User-agent: * Disallow: It seems from doing some searching and reading that this code would be preventing me from being indexed, correct? I have searched my cPanel and server and can't find a way to access it. It seems I should edit it to the following: User-agent: * Allow: / Anyone have any suggestions how to access this file? I have already tried searching for it in file manager in cPanel and on my ftp server. A file is there somewhere!