Please (Pretty Please) Help With Robots.txt File On Site--I've Tried Everything
So this particular site is airconditioning-orlando.net. My husband and I own this small business and I have worked my butt off trying to get his phone to ring! We've had moderate success on an older site but this new site is killing my efforts at the moment.
The deal is that if you run a Google search like this:
info:airconditioning-orlando.net
The results say that Google cannot index bc of a robots.txt file (and site has not appeared anywhere on Google that I have seen). But there is no robots.txt file!!! I have Googled this issue and also called my host. Other people have sometimes had this problem with Google and I've tried one suggested fix, which was a plug-in which allowed me to add info to supposedly allow/disallow, but I still don't think it added a robots.txt file. I also had the host add a blank robots.txt file, which I could then edit in Yoast. But, still, no luck.
This is driving me batty. I have reached the point where I'm thinking about switching this to an entirely new domain but even with importing this site would take a LOT of tweaking to get back to where it is now. I have found a mirroring plug-in (mirrors everything with the push of one button including theme customizations, plug-ins and internal links). My concern about the mirroring plug in is that it might mirror everything exactly--including whatever is causing the problem. Urrrggghhhh!
One last thing is that I just installed the plug-in that allowed me to add the allow coding to the settings. This was more than 24 hours ago. I read somewhere that Google would update and fix this problem (if it was going to be fixed) within twenty four hours. So that hasn't happened. Have I maybe not waited long enough?
FYI the reason this might have started is because I initially checked "discourage search engines from indexing this site," then I unchecked it, then I checked it again while building. Maybe the back and forth screwed something up. Can anyone help? Should I just move to a new domain? I have an equally decent name (not that this one is all that great anyway) and this is a new site so moving not a biggie except I don't want to import same problem.
Thank you for reading this mess and thank you even more for any and all suggestions or ideas.
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David V -
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Greg71 -
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