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It can be discouraging to see your website’s decline in search rankings. When your pages are no longer crawled by Google, these lower rankings can contribute to fewer visitors and conversions.
The “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” error can signify a problem with search engine crawling on your site. When this happens, Google has indexed a page that it cannot crawl. Fortunately, you can edit your robots.txt file to specify which pages should or should not be indexed.
In this video, we’ll explain the “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” error and how to test your website for this problem. Then, we’ll show you two different methods of fixing it. Let’s get started!▶️
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🕘Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:47 Finding the Source of the “Indexed, Though Blocked by robots.txt” Error
2:19 Edit robots.txt Directly
3:49 Use an SEO Plugin
4:14 Yoast SEO
4:54 Rank Math
6:23 Squirrly SEO
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📚 Resources
🛠 Edit robots.txt Directly
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