Image blocked by robots.txt from cdn.ampproject.org

Hello there. Thanks for reaching out with your topic. Is this Web Story URL live and published? Could you please check the URL shared above? I am not able to view your Web Stories.

This might be because of a performance optimization plugin you are using on your site, or it could also be because of your theme. You mentioned deactivating plugins, but please try temporarily disabling all other plugins and switching to another theme to see if the issue still happens.

Just for additional context, https://cdn.ampproject.org/ is the AMP CDN, and sometimes cached stories can be served from there, e.g. when accessing them via Google Discover. The CDN blocking access via robots.txt is intentional, as it’s just a cache of the content on your site, and crawlers should instead index/access the canonical content on your server. So this robots.txt there is not an issue.

Hi @luckynasan, the strange thing is that before installing the AMP plugin everything worked, this robot did not exist and the stories appeared in Discovery and in the stories section of the SERP. I’ve already tested deactivating all plugins and using a default theme and the problem persisted. Please, if you can analyze this new url it will be free.

https://cozinhalegal.com.br/web-stories/palitos-de-mucarela-na-airfryer-facil/

• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by cassiboeno.

Hi @swissspidy, how do I remove my stories from AMP CDN or clear this cache? I still don’t understand the source of the problem…

Is it possible that these images were deleted or renamed from my server when I installed the AMP plugin and Google is trying to index a file that no longer exists? I feel really lost and I would really like my stories to appear on the SERP again.

ps: at the beginning of my stories the following appears in the html code . Is this correct? Other people don’t seem to have this line of code.

The AMP CDN and cache is a fundamental part of the AMP / Web Stories format. It cannot be disabled.

What you shared at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a3loh9xyFddQiqY11mxX83-Xy2F42Bzt/view is not a problem. There is nothing for you to do or worry about with that information.

Thanks for the quick response @swissspidy. Shouldn’t I be worried about the image not even appearing in the rich result test? Sorry for my insistence, but is it possible that my stories will one day appear on discovery again? Because since October (when I activated and deactivated the AMP plugin) any old or new story received traffic.

I don’t think you need to be worried about the images not being visible in the rich result test tool. For traffic issues please see our pinned support topic. Search Console and Google Search Central are the best resources to get help with such queries.

@cassiboeno We will mark your topic as resolved as there are no further actions required from the Web Stories perspective. Thank you for your topic.