"Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines" scam?
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I’m tempted to make what I believe is an informed assumption and subsequently fly off the handle about this new “feature,” but I instead am going to ask the developer for clarification in case I’m wrong:
The “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” message seems, as far as I can tell (in my case, anyway) not at all accurate/true, and seems instead to be a fear-mongering tactic aimed at coercing Yoast users into creating accounts at OnPage.org. As far as I can tell, my robots.txt file is accessible and in the exact same shape in which it was prior to this latest Yoast update.
I am hopeful that the developer can clearly and concisely refute this hypothesis (preferably with evidence to back up that assertion), because I very much would like to be wrong about this.
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Edited to include: I am not using WordFence (which other users apparently have determined is the source of their encounter with this error message).
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