Technical access and indexing

Crawler access to the website

This check determines whether a general search crawler may access the website root.

01

What is measured

The audit applies robots.txt rules to the starting URL and detects a site-wide Disallow: / directive.

02

Pass criterion

After launch, public pages can be crawled and restrictions are limited to utility areas.

03

What to fix

Remove the global production block and retain targeted rules for admin, API and other non-search routes.

04

Automation limit

robots.txt controls crawling but is not a reliable way to remove an already known URL from an index; accessible noindex is used for that purpose.

Reference

Official documentation

Google Search Central: robots.txt

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