Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that you are facing issues with updating your robots.txt file after editing it in Rank Math under the Advanced Mode. If you have made changes to your robots.txt file using Rank Math and are not seeing the updates reflected in the URL, there are a few steps you can take to resolve this:
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Check for Physical Robots.txt File: One common reason for not seeing the updates is the presence of a physical robots.txt file in the root folder of your website. If there is a physical file, it may be conflicting with the virtual file created by Rank Math. You can remove the physical file via FTP or cPanel File Manager.
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Clear Cache: After removing any physical robots.txt file, clear both your website and server-level cache. This step is crucial to ensure that the changes take effect immediately.
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Test the Robots.txt URL: Once you have cleared the cache, test your robots.txt URL again to see if the updates are now visible.
If after following these steps you still do not see the updates reflected in the URL, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Best regards.
Sources:
Common robots.txt Issues & How to Fix Them » Rank Math
I Can’t Edit My Website’s Robots.txt » Rank Math
How to Edit Your Robots.txt With Rank Math SEO » Rank Math
Rank Math’s Advanced Mode – Available Module, Options & More
Hello,
Could you please share the affected URL?
Also, you mentioned that you have modified the robots under the Advanced mode.
Please confirm if you’re referring to robots meta tag (noindex, index) or the actual robots.txt.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Thanks so much for your time, URL link is https://myweb/robots.txt(sent in sensitive Data), which is showing as default set and i already edited in plugin. Also tried to clear cache in cloudflare.
Just found it already updated.thanks so much.May i know it did not update as cache reason?or any action was made by your side?
Hello,
We don’t have control over any websites’ robots.txt and it should be updated in real-time as long as it is not cached from your website or server.
However, we’re glad that your robots.txt is already showing the rules you have set in Rank Math.
If you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime to assist you further.
Looking forward to helping you.
Got it.Thanks so much for your time and have a good day!
Hello,
We are super happy that we could address your concern. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
