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Overlooking Robots.txt Issues
Risks:
— Important Pages Not Indexed: Pages that should be searchable might be excluded from the search results.
— Exposure of Private or Duplicate Content: Private pages, staging sites, or duplicate content might get indexed.
— Long-term SEO Issues: Persistent SEO issues occur when web crawlers spend time on irrelevant pages, thereby reducing your crawl budget and delaying the indexing of important pages.
— Low Visibility of Site: Users searching for the most important content of your website might not be able to see it.
Advice: Always test your robots.txt after editing. Contact me to fix it.
Problems Caused By The Robots.txt File
Benefits of Fixing Them:
— Remove Barriers To Search Engine Crawlers: With no restrictions on ‘Googlebots’ and other search engines, important pages of your site can be indexed without delay.
— Keep Private Pages Safe: Your SEO as well as your privacy is safeguarded as your confidential, private, or duplicate pages are not indexed.
— Better SEO Results: Simple and clear guidelines prevent the crawl budget from being wasted so search engines can give more attention to your key pages.
Advice: Always test your robots.txt after editing. Contact me to fix it.