Warning from Google Search Console

kurosaki4d · Jul 26, 2020

Hello,

Today i received an email from Google Search Console saying that i have "Coverage issues detected"

The warning is: "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt"

When i investigated the problem, i found out that the issue comes from blocking the "affiliate cloaking links", i use /visit/ for my affiliate links and i disallowed it in my robots.txt file:
Disallow: /visit/

Is it safe to leave it as it is? How will this affect my SEO?

Thank you

tiiberius · Jul 27, 2020

It should completely fine. How are your money pages performing?

Something for inspiration: https://www.google.com/robots.txt

kurosaki4d · Jul 27, 2020

tiiberius said:
It should completely fine. How are your money pages performing?

Something for inspiration: https://www.google.com/robots.txt

Thank you!

Well based on your answer, this is currently my robots.txt


User-Agent: *
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /visit/
Disallow: /author/
Disallow: /copyright/
Disallow: /*/?replytocom/
Disallow: /*/trackback
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /error_log
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /php.ini
Disallow: /user.ini
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

Sitemap: https://domain.com/sitemap_index.xml

Can you confirm if everything seems right to you?

bobrock2053 · Jul 27, 2020

That all looks good unless you are trying to rank for author names. Disallowing the affiliate links the way you are set up now is correct. You should be good to go

kurosaki4d · Jul 27, 2020

bobrock2053 said:
That all looks good unless you are trying to rank for author names. Disallowing the affiliate links the way you are set up now is correct. You should be good to go

Thank you. Indeed, i do not intend to rank for author names. Anyway, that's a relieft.

Thank you very much for your help @tiiberius @bobrock2053

bobrock2053 · Jul 27, 2020

No problem! Best of luck.

Mr Positive · Jul 27, 2020

Clear your cache and resubmit it should work fine now

tiiberius · Jul 27, 2020

kurosaki4d said:
Thank you!

Well based on your answer, this is currently my robots.txt

User-Agent: * Disallow: /readme.html Disallow: /visit/ Disallow: /author/ Disallow: /copyright/ Disallow: /*/?replytocom/ Disallow: /*/trackback Disallow: /cron.php Disallow: /error_log Disallow: /license.txt Disallow: /php.ini Disallow: /user.ini Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Sitemap: https://domain.com/sitemap_index.xml

Can you confirm if everything seems right to you?

All good imo

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