Title: Robots.txt
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Robots.txt

 *  Resolved [Admin_AdSpot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/admin_adspot/)
 * (@admin_adspot)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-37/)
 * Hi,
 * I have this in my Robots.txt.
    What does it mean?
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /
 * Thanks

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-37/#post-5628640)
 * Please check:
 * Admin Dashboard>Settings>Reading>Search Engine Visibility>Discourage search engines
   from indexing this site (It is up to search engines to honor this request.)
 * In latest versions of WordPress, the robots.txt file is a virtual file that is
   created by WordPress but only if a robots.txt file has not been manually added
   to the site root folder.
 * You can read up on robots.txt files here:
 * [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062596?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062596?hl=en)
 * The first line means any user agent (browser)
    The second means not to index 
   any items at root (which is the site). _Again: It is up to search engines to 
   honor this request._
 * Once you uncheck that checkbox at settings and save that setting, review the 
   robots.txt file and make sure you submit it to Search Engines (such as Google
   and Bing).
 *  Thread Starter [Admin_AdSpot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/admin_adspot/)
 * (@admin_adspot)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-37/#post-5628641)
 * thanks for quick reply.

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 * [robots](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/robots/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Admin_AdSpot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/admin_adspot/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-37/#post-5628641)
 * Status: resolved

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