WordPress Robots.txt Blocking Googlebot? Here’s the Fix
Googlebot blocked by robots.txt on WordPress usually means the “Discourage search engines” setting under Settings, Reading is accidentally enabled, a staging site’s robots.txt was copied to production, or a security plugin added a Disallow rule. Check Google Search Console’s Page Indexing report, fix the robots.txt file, then request indexing to confirm the fix. You publish … Read more