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Why is my site not being indexed?

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Jason_Marsh123 last edited by

Hi,

I have performed a site:www.menshealthanswers.co.uk search on Google and none of the pages are being indexed.

I do not have a "noindex" value on my robot tag

This is what is in place:

Any ideas?

Jason
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MattRoney @Alick300 last edited by

Let us know if this works for you, Janet.
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Alick300 last edited by

Hi Jason,

In robots.txt you have added trailing slash that is the reason.

http://www.menshealthanswers.co.uk/robots.txt

Remove trailing slash from robots.txt.

It should be -

User-agent: *

Disallow:

Thanks
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