robots.txt disallow: /uploads/ problem

[giorgio1]

Hi there,

i got a problem with the robots.txt, beacuse it is bloking /uploads/, as you can see down here:

Sitemap: https://www.giorgiofranzosipsicologo.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: NerdyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /apps/
Disallow: /uploads/

This is no good for Google and SEO, because Google can't see images content.

Why is this happening and how can it be fixed? Did i do something wrong with the editor?

Thank you,

Giorgio

[mshahrooz]

This problem is worldwide for all weebly website since 14th april, Hope we will hear soon from weebly officals regarding this issue 

[giorgio1]

ok, ty, i hope that too

[WWSpotlight]

My site is WorldwideSpotlight.com and this problem has been affecting my site for the past week now, for some reason I can't upload a proper Twitter card with a image. Twitter gives me a message that says my robot TXT files are Being blocked from my website and that's why I cannot see a picture. This is garbage for SEO purposes, Every month or two there is another problem with Weebly,I would love to switch to another platform but I have so much work put into this website on the Weibley flatform.  I hate Weebly.

[mshahrooz]

Weebly will become a thing of no use if this problem continues

[Adam7]

Sorry for the trouble, guys. I'm not sure of the specifics behind adding this to robots.txt, so I'll see if I can find out more information.

[mshahrooz]

This effecting all weebly website, thats quite strange, maybe someone hacked weebly

[Ourwildindia]

Hope this can be solved. I put a lot of effort in the SEO of my pictures.

[Jym]

This is a serious issue Adam.

if weebly who controls the robot.txt file keeps having the line "Disallow: uploads/" it means that no images used on a weebly website will be seen by Google crawling (and they won't show up on image search) - Weebly needs to fix this ASAP

[Shona2]

No Response from weebly officials yet. Thats ready causing damage to our sites, Alongside the images, other files are also unable to be crawled, Google ranking are droping, getting less traffic

[Adam7]

I'm hoping we'll get more information soon about this. It sounds like it was done with security in mind, but I don't have any other details beyond that.

[Adam7 · Accepted solution]

We are going to revert this change shortly, so the /uploads folder should begin being indexed again. Sorry for the trouble, everyone!

[Vidorian]

I just googled my website and it shows google is not crawling it for the robots.txt file .  It comes up as NO page information.  Any idea what is happening now?

[Adam7]

What site are you having trouble with, @Vidorian? It might be just cached info that Google has yet to update.

[giorgio1]

Issue has been fixed!, thank you!