Posted June 13, 20187 yr When I look at my 404 error logs I see 2545 404 error messages on robots.txt How do I resolve this? Why is there no robots.txt file included with invision community? If search engines keep getting 404 error messages anywhere on my site, they are going to consider the site garbage and lower its ranking, correct? Is there a best method for adding a robots.txt file? Edited June 13, 20187 yr by Josiah Wallingford
June 13, 20187 yr Community Expert It doesn’t affect ranking and there is no need to have such a file. You create it yourself as soon as there are things you want to put in there.
June 13, 20187 yr Author Could I just create a robots.txt file that is blank so that at least they are not getting 404 errors? What effects would that have on them indexing the site?
June 13, 20187 yr Community Expert You can do that to avoid the 404s. That’s the only result. I will not influence indexing/ranking.
June 14, 20187 yr We don't include a default robots.txt because doing so would overwrite any custom robots.txt you may set up.
June 14, 20187 yr I got tired of Webmaster Tools complaining about index issues due to my robots.txt, so these days it is blank.
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