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My WordPress robots.txt was different from What I expected – Here how I found the problem My robots.txt was wrong for 4 months, AIOSEO said it was fine

My robots.txt was wrong for 4 months, AIOSEO said it was fine

My WordPress robots.txt was different from What I expected – Here how I found the problem

Nitesh Kumar September 22, 2026

My WordPress site served a broken robots.txt for 4 months, missing sitemaps, while AIOSEO showed it was...