Robots.txt blocks crawlers and social previews
The robots.txt file blocks Facebook's scraper and Google, so shared product links and indexing fail.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 22 August 2024 · last reported 7 March 2025
What's going wrong
Several site owners report that their robots.txt file blocks crawlers they need.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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