Older than most of the search engines we use today, the robots.txt file is a dinosaur of the web. Although…
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The “Blocked due to unauthorized request (401)” status describes unindexed pages in Google Search Console. It means that: Googlebot tried…
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“Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” and “Blocked by robots.txt” are Google Search Console statuses. They indicate that the affected pages…
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“Blocked by page removal tool” is a Google Search Console status. It means that your page is indexed, but it…
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If you are confused when Google reports redirects as other categories, like “blocked by robots.txt”, “soft 404s”, “noindexed”, “404s”, and…
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