designerleelee

Marking as resolved.

Update: There was a misunderstanding with the directions : “Please copy the contents of the?virtual robots.txt?file and paste in?WordPress > Yoast SEO > Tools > File Editor > robots.txt.”

I did do this but this was the txt file that contained all the directives blocking the search engines:

# START YOAST BLOCK # —————————
User-agent: *
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /page/*/?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-json/
Disallow: /?rest_route= User-agent:
AdsBot Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://sarasmeaton.com/sitemap_index.xml
# ————————— # END YOAST BLOCK

I’ve removed all of this and the site is accessible again.

Thank you for your help!

I have used the robots.txt tester you provided the link for and the robots.txt file was successfully fetched.

I don’t have any other sitemaps that I can see…Only this one from Yoast. I have resubmitted it and Google Search Console continues to say that it’s blocked. I have tried Bing search as well and Bing is also saying the site is blocked.

Not sure what to do next. Appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you for your response. I have done that and tried the indexing tool in Google Search Console and continue to receive the following error: URL is not available to Google. I also see in the search console that the sitemap could not be read and to verify it is in the correct location. I’ve tested the sitemap link myself and it works. Any ideas? None of the metadata is showing up for this site in Google search.

I’m having the same problem with these fields not showing up since updating to 1.3.4. I just went back to the previous version and all is displaying correctly again.

Thank you, this is now resolved!

I appreciate you getting back to me. I switched the payment gateway to Stripe because we didn’t have time to do any testing. I will do on my own dev site and investigate further with the theme I’m using. Thanks.

@wfadam Thank you, that helped!