Google webmaster is blocking links due to robot.txt in wordpress
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I just completed my wordpress website and added it to the Google Webmasters. Verification is done succcessfully and the robot.txt is also submitted in webmasters.
I am using “yoast seo” pluigin to setup the SEO part. So, I am using their sitemap as of now. But, when I test the sitemap whose path is domain/sitemap_index.xml the google webmaster is giving this error “Url blocked by robots.txt” and there are total 23 URL’s blocked by google.
I have done following things to rectify the possible issues:
1. The “discourage search engines” option is not checked.
2. I have installed a plugin to edit the default robots.txt and my current robots.txt is below:
User-Agent: *
Disallow:
3. I have also checked .htaccess file and it is looking fine.
I am completely clueless about this issue and how to resolve it. I have deleted my website from webmasters 7-8 hours back and added new link without www. I haven’t submitted the sitemap till now because I hope that I will be able to get some guidance before submission so that this time there will be no error. I still do the test run by giving the sitemap path, but it comes with the same error of link blocking.
Looking forward to some help..
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