Googlebot is blocked from my domain

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I've just added my site to Google Webmaster tools and it says 'Googlebot is blocked from my domain'

However when I go to mydomain.com/robots.txt, it displays this which I think is ok

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

But in Google webmaster it displays

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

and in the Test results...

Blocked by line 2: Disallow: /
Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions

Any suggestions, I'm using Wordpress and I've deactivated my plugins and I've set 'Allow search engines to visit my site' under 'Privacy settings'
#website design #blocked #domain #googlebot
  • Hi,

    You might have multiple robots.txt files or you might be blocking it in your .htaccess file. Easiest way is to go into your files directory and look through everything.
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    • Looks to me like you have a WordPress plugin that's generating a "virtual" robots.txt file. A number of the secure WP plugin's will do that. You probably also have a physical robots.txt file in the root folder of your website that Google is seeing. Just delete that file from your website and you should be ok.
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