How can I make it so that robots.txt is not ignored due to a URL re-direct?
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Recently a site moved from blog.site.com to site.com/blog with an instruction like this one:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/site_com.conf:94: ProxyPass /blog http://blog.site.com
/etc/httpd/conf.d/site_com.conf:95: ProxyPassReverse /blog http://blog.site.comIt's a Wordpress.org blog that was set as a subdomain, and now is being redirected to look like a directory. That said, the robots.txt file seems to be ignored by Google bot. There is a Disallow: /tag/ on that file to avoid "duplicate content" on the site. I have tried this before with other Wordpress subdomains and works like a charm, except for this time, in which the blog is rendered as a subdirectory. Any ideas why? Thanks!
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Hi there,
No, haven't tried it yet, but we'll give it a shot. Thanks!
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Have you thought about adding rel canonicals by chance? Also, how do you know the robots.txt is being ignored are the page showing up in search results? If so maybe the syntax is incorrect in your robots.txt file. Check out robotstxt.org
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Hi Rocio,
Have you tried YOAST SEO plugin? It has an option to ad to the tags.
That's the easiest way I'd go for.Best Luck.
GR.
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