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Common Robots.txt Mistakes That Kill Your SEO
DevToolVault Team•
We've seen it happen: a site launch goes live, but traffic drops to zero. The culprit? A forgotten robots.txt rule.
The Deadly Mistake
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
This tells EVERY crawler to ignore your ENTIRE site. It's common in staging environments but disastrous in production.
Blocking Resources
Don't block your CSS or JS files. Google needs to render your page to understand it. If you block /assets/, Google might see a broken page and rank you lower.
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