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Can Robots.txt Prevent Google from Indexing a Migrated Website?
Can robots.txt prevent Google from indexing a migrated website? So robots.txt is often misused. So the number one thing you want to know is if you have migrated your website and you have a new website, that robots.txt should be allowing the search engines to crawl that page. If you accidentally block search engines in robots.txt, that'll definitely hurt your migration and it will hurt the results of your new site. But also realize that robots.txt, while it is a directive, it isn't the best way. And Google says this in their documentation, it's not the best way to block Google from accessing a page. And they even recommend you don't use it to block Google from pages. So we always have to first approach any issue with what is the goal, what are we trying to accomplish, and then the team at CTO Migrations will help you find the right way to achieve that.
More About CTO Migrations:
CTO Migrations is a service of the New Jersey based Charles Taylor Online LLC that helps businesses protect and recover organic search traffic during high-risk website changes, including site redesigns, rebrands, CMS changes, and domain migrations.
The service was founded by Charles Taylor, a veteran SEO and migration expert known as "The SEO Migration Guy." Charles brings over 20 years of enterprise SEO experience, including in-house leadership roles at Fox Corporation, Verizon, and Lexis-Nexis, and presents at SEO conferences such as Agency Fast Track.
CTO Migrations serves marketing directors, SEO professionals, developers, and website owners at medium to enterprise businesses, plus agencies seeking expert support for client migrations. Typical clients are planning a site redesign, rebrand, CMS change, or domain switch and want to avoid losing rankings, traffic, or revenue.
The service offers strategic guidance and hands-on support across the full migration lifecycle: URL mapping, redirect auditing, indexation recovery, and signal restoration. Clients choose a guided migration, where their team learns the process under supervision, or a full-service engagement with documentation and weekly calls. International SEO migrations, including hreflang implementation, are supported too.
CTO Migrations operates on five core principles: transparency, accountability, expertise, precision, and education. It is one of three service hubs under Charles Taylor Online LLC, alongside the SEO Strategy Room.
Charles Taylor Online LLC
79 Bissell Rd
Lebanon, NJ 08833
(732) 284-9831
https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
