Why Does Google Mark My Site As Blocked By Robots Txt?

2025-09-04 21:42:10 224

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Uri
Uri
2025-09-06 19:00:53
Okay, quick chatty take: Google flags pages as blocked by robots.txt when something in your robots rules tells Googlebot not to visit those URLs. That could be a direct Disallow, a server permission issue that stops robots.txt from loading, or even a staging/deploy process that accidentally left crawling disabled. I found that the most common bad actors are an accidental "Disallow: /", a robots.txt that returns 403/500, or a CDN rule blocking the file.

What I do first is open https://yourdomain/robots.txt to eyeball it, then jump into Google Search Console's URL Inspection and the robots tester. The tester will tell you exactly which line blocks the URL. Don't forget to check user-agent lines — maybe you've allowed Bing but not Googlebot. Also check the headers: an X-Robots-Tag in HTTP can do noindex or block indexing even if robots.txt is fine.

If you fix the file, clear any CDN caches and then request a live test or reindex in Search Console. Keep an eye on server logs — you'll often see Googlebot getting a 403 or 404 for robots.txt or the blocked URLs. If you want something less technical, try toggling your site to a simple default robots.txt that allows everything and see if the warning disappears; then reintroduce rules carefully. I like using that iterative approach because it isolates the problem fast and keeps me from accidentally hiding parts of the site I care about.
Lucas
Lucas
2025-09-10 11:59:48
Oh man, this is one of those headaches that sneaks up on you right after a deploy — Google says your site is 'blocked by robots.txt' when it finds a robots.txt rule that prevents its crawler from fetching the pages. In practice that usually means there's a line like "User-agent: *
Disallow: /" or a specific "Disallow" matching the URL Google tried to visit. It could be intentional (a staging site with a blanket block) or accidental (your template includes a Disallow that went live).

I've tripped over a few of these myself: once I pushed a maintenance config to production and forgot to flip a flag, so every crawler got told to stay out. Other times it was subtler — the file was present but returned a 403 because of permissions, or Cloudflare was returning an error page for robots.txt. Google treats a robots.txt that returns a non-200 status differently; if robots.txt is unreachable, Google may be conservative and mark pages as blocked in Search Console until it can fetch the rules.

Fixing it usually follows the same checklist I use now: inspect the live robots.txt in a browser (https://yourdomain/robots.txt), use the URL Inspection tool and the Robots Tester in Google Search Console, check for a stray "Disallow: /" or user-agent-specific blocks, verify the server returns 200 for robots.txt, and look for hosting/CDN rules or basic auth that might be blocking crawlers. After fixing, request reindexing or use the tester's "Submit" functions. Also scan for meta robots tags or X-Robots-Tag headers that can hide content even if robots.txt is fine. If you want, I can walk through your robots.txt lines and headers — it’s usually a simple tweak that gets things back to normal.
Wyatt
Wyatt
2025-09-10 16:23:39
Short, nerdy, and practical: Google labels pages as blocked by robots.txt when its crawler is prevented by the robots.txt directives on your site or when the robots.txt itself can’t be fetched correctly. Common causes include an explicit "Disallow" rule (sometimes from a staging config), robots.txt returning a non-200 HTTP status (403/404/500), CDN or firewall rules blocking access, or user-agent-specific blocks that exclude Googlebot. It’s also worth checking that you aren’t relying on robots.txt to do something it can’t (like serve a meta 'noindex' — that’s handled in HTML or headers). Troubleshooting steps I follow are: fetch https://yourdomain/robots.txt, run the URL through Search Console’s robots tester and URL Inspection, verify server responses and headers (200 for robots.txt, appropriate content-type), clear caches, and request reindexing after fixes. Logs are golden — they show Googlebot’s actual response codes. If after all that you still see the block, look for proxy or auth rules or accidental redirects that serve the wrong content to crawlers. If you want, share the robots.txt content and I’ll point out the likely culprit.
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