Title: Google scrawl errors produced by WordPress/wp-admin/ files
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Google scrawl errors produced by WordPress/wp-admin/ files

 *  [valtom2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valtom2/)
 * (@valtom2)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-scrawl-errors-produced-by-wordpresswp-admin-files/)
 * Hello,
    All of a sudden (I think it has to do with the update of a WordPress 
   plugin, but I am not sure) I found several crawl errors when checking the site
   health in Google Webmaster Tools. Specifically, these are
 * /WordPress/wp-admin/import.php
    /WordPress/wp-admin/admin.php /WordPress/wp-admin/
   async-upload.php /WordPress/wp-admin/credits.php
 * Googlebot couldn’t access the contents of this URL because the server had an 
   internal error when trying to process the request.
 * At the same time, I observed that my keyword rankings have deteriorated drastically.
   
   Since I didn’t change anything on my website, can it be due to these crawl errors?
 * I am desperate and would appreciate any help.
 * I have two websites with the main website in the root directory of my space and
   the WordPress blog in the WordPress directory.
    The crawl errors relate to the
   main website (root directory).
 * No idea… Please help!

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 *  [MarkRH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markrh/)
 * (@markrh)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-scrawl-errors-produced-by-wordpresswp-admin-files/#post-3303716)
 * I have /wp-admin/ disallowed in my robots.txt file. I see no reason for bots 
   to see or link to anything there. If I log out of my blog none of the visible
   links even go to the wp-admin directory. Actually, /wp-admin/ isn’t even present
   in my page source.
 *  Thread Starter [valtom2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valtom2/)
 * (@valtom2)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-scrawl-errors-produced-by-wordpresswp-admin-files/#post-3303717)
 * Thanks, Mark!
    I already thought about it. But what I don’t get is: why now? 
   There are no links to wp-admin/ on my website (in the root directory). And then
   the issue with keyword rankings. Well, should I start with robots.txt like
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /WordPress/wp-admin
 * or
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /blog/*.js$ Disallow: /blog/*.css$ Disallow: /blog/wp-
   admin/ Disallow: /blog/wp-includes/
 * ???
 * Thanks.
    Happy holidays!!

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 * Last reply from: [valtom2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valtom2/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-scrawl-errors-produced-by-wordpresswp-admin-files/#post-3303717)
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