Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] robots.txt
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] robots.txt

 *  [luffer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luffer/)
 * (@luffer)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-robotstxt/)
 * I’ve added this plugin but it seems to be blocking crawlers without me asking
   it to. I want search engines to be able to crawl my site, why has the plugin 
   disallowed them all?
 * I recently noticed all my Google AdSense ads had vanished and my visitor numbers
   have plummeted. I contacted Google who told me my robot.txt file was blocking
   them from crawling my site. It had:
 * User-agent: *
    Disallow: /
 * Why has the plugin done this and how do I stop it? Why has it acted in this way
   without notification or asking permission? Why are there no settings to disable
   it?

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 * Last reply from: [luffer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luffer/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-robotstxt/)
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