My site's robots.txt contains one extra Disallow: /forums/-/

[Xfactormaster]

My site's robots.txt contains one extra Disallow: /forums/-/
Remaining Disallows are same as xenforo forum.
I want to know what is this meaning. Does it hurt google indexing and ranking?

Thank you

 

[Nonilol]

I am not 100% sure what this /-/ is doing there. Or do you have a subdirectory called "-" within "forums"?

If the latter, this line in your robots.txt basically means that bots are not allowed to visit everything that is within the "-" directory.
You should check that folders content via ftp. If there is content you want to be indexed, remove this line from your robots.txt, otherwise keep it.

 

[Jumbuck1976]

Do you actually want Google to crawl the forum directory? If you remove the /-/ you'll be moving the problem onto the next directory up the tree.

 

[Xfactormaster]

Thanks for the information, i removed it, let me see what happens