# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-complaining-indexed-though-blocked-by-robots-txt/96408/17 "2018-11-02T05:40:34Z")

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Can you see if this:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d84256a876a9fa4fc7bcb4b8ac8c5865f8c10701>
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> This strips pages out of indexes that should not exist see:
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> https://meta.discou…rse.org/t/pages-listed-in-the-robots-txt-are-crawled-and-indexed-by-google/100309/11?u=sam

Sorts out your problem?

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