Googlebot attempts to access your robots.txt file

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Robots.txt file failure

Before crawling, to see if there are any areas of your site that you would prefer not to be indexed. If the bot cannot access the robots.txt file, Google will delay crawling until it can access it. Therefore, always make sure that the file is available.

That explains a bit about crawl errors related to your entire site. Now let's look at what crawl errors can occur on specific pages.

URL errors
As we mentioned, URL errors refer to crawl errors that occur when a search engine bot attempts to crawl a specific page on your website.


When we talk about URL errors, we usually japan cell phone number list first talk about crawl errors such as (soft) 404 Not Found errors . You should regularly check for these errors (use Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools) and fix them.

If the page/topic on that page no longer exists and will not be returned to your site, a 410 page will do. If you have similar content on another page, use a 301 redirect instead. Make sure your sitemap and internal links are up to date as well.


We found that many of these URL errors are caused by internal links. So, many of these errors are your responsibility. If you remove a page from your site, adjust or remove all internal links to it as well. These links are no longer useful.