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    • Moving-Web-SEO-Auckland
      Moving-Web-SEO-Auckland Subscriber last edited by

      Anyone got any ideas how to get a server/hosting provider who is preventing rogerbot from crawling and me not been able to set up a campaign to duplicate the error on there end?

      The server/hosting provider is crazydomains dot com

      My clients robots.txt

      User-agent: *
      Disallow: /wp-admin/
      Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
      User-agent: rogerbot

      Disallow:

      Sitemap: https://www. something

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      • Moving-Web-SEO-Auckland
        Moving-Web-SEO-Auckland Subscriber @Tom.Capper last edited by

        @tom-capper
        Thanks Tom was more about server settings outside of robots.txt for hosting providers.
        Managed to get them to remove rogerbot blocking on ALL there servers as they first stated that it was well known as a malicious robot hence the block???
        Until I made them aware.... cough cough

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        • Tom.Capper
          Tom.Capper Subject Expert @Moving-Web-SEO-Auckland last edited by

          @moving-web-seo-auckland

          There are a bunch of third party tools that would allow you to validate robots.txt against a given user agent.

          For example:

          • https://technicalseo.com/tools/robots-txt/ (includes Moz user agents in dropdown)
          • https://www.realrobotstxt.com/ (allows you to copy/paste a test robots file)

          Without the hosting provider having a Moz account & campaign of their own, this is probably the easiest way to get them to replicate the error.

          Tom

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