# Just switched from private to public, blocked by robots.txt

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-switched-from-private-to-public-blocked-by-robots-txt/145473 "2020-03-24T23:07:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-switched-from-private-to-public-blocked-by-robots-txt/145473/5 "2020-03-25T00:06:48Z")

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Your `robots.txt` lives in the root of each site, so:

```
https://pickleballist.com/robots.txt
https://forums.pickleballist.com/robots.txt

```

Nothing in those files is blocking Google, you can check this for yourself using third party robots.txt scanners, for example [this tool by ryte](https://en.ryte.com/free-tools/robots-txt/?refresh=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.pickleballist.com%2Frobots.txt&useragent=Googlebot&submit=Evaluate).

Which confirms the robots.txt doesn’t block the Googlebot:

 ![RYTE Robots Test](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/3/23c827b73714cf4fab4af8445edc8bf55ae5d504.png)

Google also has a tester [within the search console](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en).

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