robots.txt

  • Hi
    I received this message from Google:
    “Googlebot can’t access your site
    Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 10 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt. To ensure that we didn’t crawl any pages listed in that file, we postponed our crawl. Your site’s overall robots.txt error rate is 62.5%. “

    I can see other queries about robot.txt but none seem to answer this issue. Advice please and please note I need a simply explained fix as I am no expert. Many thanks to all
    Geoff

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Have you created a robots.txt? Also, is your site on a shared hosting? Yes? Then , my suggestion is to ask your hosting provider what’s going on.

    Thread Starter DriveWrite

    (@drivewrite)

    Thanks Tara

    First response is this:
    “The robots.txt file belongs in your document root folder.
    You can simply create a blank file and name it robots.txt. This will reduce site errors and allow all search engines to rank anything they want.”
    Is this correct and where is the root folder?

    Thanks

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    root folder is where the WordPress is installed

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