You Got Work To Do If Robotted Out Pages Is Out Ranking Your Content In Google

Apr 1, 2019 - 8:05 am 20 by

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Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that if your content on your site is being outranked by robotted out pages, then you got work to do.

In short, if you have a page on your site that you used the robots.txt file to tell Google not to crawl and it still outranks other relevant content on your site for a query in Google - that is an issue.

John said "If a robotted page from your site ranks instead of a page with content on it, for queries that users use to find your site, then I think you have work to do :-)."

Here are the tweets:

This might be obvious, but sometimes the obvious is not so clear when it comes to SEO and Google ranking.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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