Google Bots are blocked from accessing certain CSS resources.

  • Just received a warning today in my search console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) that Google is unable to access the following due to a restriction in the robots.txt file:

    <<my domain>>/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=evolve_dynamic_css&ver=4.2.2

    I had a look at the Robots.txt file and it seems the Google Bots can’t access the resource due to the following restriction:

    Disallow: /wp-admin/

    I tried to remove that restriction but it gets recreated immediately.

    I then tried to DELETE Robots.txt completely but it was re-created straight away by WordPress and with the same restriction.

    My questions:

    1. Is it at all an issue that the Google Bots can’t access that particular resource. Is that something Google needs to access and if it can’t it’ll hurt my SEO?

    2. If it is an issue, how do I go about fixing it as going through manually modifying the Robots.txt file doesn’t seem to work?

    I have two sites which I got those warnings for. One uses the Evolve theme and the other uses your premium Evolve+ theme.
    Other websites I have which use different themes did NOT receive these warnings so I am pretty sure it is theme-specific.

    Many thanks in advance for your help ??

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  • Thread Starter ginmi

    (@ginmi)

    I should also add that as a result of this, Google’s search console is now showing that my site has 71 pages with blocked resources, all of which are the same resource described above.

    The blocked resource issue only started happening Yesterday and the two affected sites are with different hosts so it’s also not a hosting related issue.

    Hi,

    That is custom css file link created using WordPress Ajax. No need to index that file, it’s not a content file. I think in your google webmaster tools you can choose not to index that url.

    In WordPress there is no robot.txt file, you are probably using a SEO plugin. In your SEO plugin, see if you can exclude that url from indexing.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter ginmi

    (@ginmi)

    I am using Yoat SEO and it allows me to set a ‘noindex’ tag on any page or post on my site.
    However, this specific is dynamic content and is not a page or post in its traditional sense so I don’t know how I would go about about setting a ‘noindex’ meta tag for it.

    Do you?

    Alternatively, how would I go about setting a dynamically generated page to not be indexed through Google Webmaster tools?

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