What is measured
The audit applies robots.txt rules to the starting URL and detects a site-wide Disallow: / directive.
Technical access and indexing
This check determines whether a general search crawler may access the website root.
The audit applies robots.txt rules to the starting URL and detects a site-wide Disallow: / directive.
After launch, public pages can be crawled and restrictions are limited to utility areas.
Remove the global production block and retain targeted rules for admin, API and other non-search routes.
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.
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