# Google complaining – Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-complaining-indexed-though-blocked-by-robots-txt/96408>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-complaining-indexed-though-blocked-by-robots-txt/96408 "2018-09-05T12:09:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![vincentp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vincentp/32/110063_2.png) [@vincentp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vincentp)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-complaining-indexed-though-blocked-by-robots-txt/96408/16 "2018-10-10T23:04:33Z")

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This just started happing on my discourse install (self hosted). It reporting this for all the rss links  
e.g

```plaintext
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed of &#39;Is there a performance penalty in calling an external FB script?&#39;" href="https://forums.finalbuilder.com/t/is-there-a-performance-penalty-in-calling-an-external-fb-script/6238.rss" />

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 ![blockedbyrobots](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/a/baebd240469c0a33d8d711f0c92950e0d7753f64.png)

These links are on every topic page, perhaps it might be be better to just let google index the rss feeds?

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