EddieG

From what i know wp doesn’t display robots.txt on the wp root (public_html). However i curried on and applied robots.txt (now it is giving erron on rankmath plugin) and looks like things are back to normality (i will keep an eye on the development).

I need to know (based on others opinion) how robots.txt performs on other sites.

I’ve read many other complaints and i have to say that this error It cost me a lot of money.

I hope w3tc can fix this error once and for all.

Regards

Hi

Problem solved. I created a robots.txt file and added the script you suggested
I didn’t have a robots.txt file in the first place although my website shows one under samplesite.com/robots.txt

I know that wp created one even though does not make it visible but i thought i would work, but not after creating the file it is all working as should.

Thanks for you time

p,s If you receive an email from me please ignore it

Hi Rank Math

Adding to the same issue. You said

“If you are getting robots.txt file is not writable then that means the FS_METHOD constant is not set to direct”
So i checked the config file and the fs-method it is set to direct. See below

/** Allow Direct Updating Without FTP */
define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);

Now, going a little back to the same issue, which at the same time i received this error from w2tc (see image – https://ibb.co/18vcfV4)

I managed to fix that error by creating a robots.txt file on public_html, and that made w3tc happy but looks like I have another message from Rank Math (see image – https://ibb.co/zJSsGhq)

The first message wants me to make robots.txt writable, which Rank Math never asked for it before. It means that I have to change permission to 777,right? Isn’t that dangerous?

How do i proceed fixing the error?
Thanks

Thanks

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by EddieG.

HI Rank Math

After checked my site samplesite.com/robots.txt i found this txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.samplesite.com/sitemap_index.xml

Is this the way RankMath suppose to write txt file? Could this be the cause of my traffic drop by at least 50%?

Hi there

After a thorough investigation i found out that RankMath hasn’t added a robot.txt
Such a file does not exist on my server.
Ever w3 cache is showing an error – FTP credentials don’t allow to write to file /var/www/samplesite.com/public_html/robots.txt

RankMath- Edit Robots.txt gives this message – robots.txt file is not writable.

Trying to edit the file but not there to do anything

Must also note that i have lost more than half of my organic traffic.

Can you please let me know how to fix this error?

Thanks,
Eddie

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by EddieG.
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Hi Bethany Chobanian Lang

Thanks for your awesome and true support.

Yes you can close the ticket as the issue is solved naturally, believing that it could have been a glitch from google side. I found out that there were numerous complaints of the same issue.

Thanks for you support and keep up the great work!

Hello James, thanks for your reply.
Did check again and it seems like the ads do only display on main page (as in the link provided).
If you do check any post then you’ll notice the lack of ads. As mentioned on previous message, i haven’t changed any setting nor i have removed anything related to ads that is why i find rather strange the ads displaying on main page only.
Please let me know what has gone wrong (so i can prevent it from happening again in the future) and can i solve it.

Kind regards,
Eddie

Hi

By image ads i meant to add the affiliate link on an image or images with links provided by the affiliate programs and place it on posts, or even something like Amazon product images.

Hope i have explained it clearly and haven’t confused you.

Thanks

Hi Lucian

1 – Yes, it is the same link, but could be more than one link.

2 – The link could be in image or in text/keyword/specific word found on many articles

3 – The image with affiliate link will placed in the middle of the article twice or three times.
4 – Would like to use the sidebar widget also.

So far this is what I have in mind

Thanks

Hi Brecht

Thank you for the super fast and honest answer

Best regards,
Eddie

…also please take a look at these other two images and please let me know how to fix those js script issues?

image_3 – https://pasteboard.co/JS6GYnv.jpg
image_4 – https://pasteboard.co/JS6Hsg0.jpg

Thank you again!

Thank you very much Lap (@lapzor) for your patience and clarification.

Hi

So to conclude…the form (popup) does not work on amp, right? Basically I can’t serve the popup subscription form on amp pages?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by EddieG.

Hi there

I tested the page (the same page i gave in the link) https://www.zodiacenthusiasts.com/free-gift/amp/ and it isn’t working.

I am not saying that you are wrong but could you provide me with some samples?

Thanks

Hi there

I am using the official AMP and it is on Reader mode.

I added the mailchimp code because the the previous form wasn’t collecting data from select from list option. I will try it once more and see if it will work.

What do you mean with – And finally I notice the form is inside a popup called “gl-popup”.

This is the link – https://www.zodiacenthusiasts.com/free-gift/

Thanks

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