Title: robots.txt
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# robots.txt

 *  [DriveWrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drivewrite/)
 * (@drivewrite)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-41/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-41/#post-6440458)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drivewrite/)
 * (@drivewrite)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-41/#post-6440481)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-41/#post-6440545)
 * root folder is where the WordPress is installed

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/robotstxt-41/#post-6440545)
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