# Needing to edit robots.txt file - where is it?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/needing-to-edit-robots-txt-file-where-is-it/93879
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8월 3, 2018, 9:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needing-to-edit-robots-txt-file-where-is-it/93879 "2018-08-03T21:11:37Z")
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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: [8월 7, 2018, 10:58오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/needing-to-edit-robots-txt-file-where-is-it/93879/17 "2018-08-07T10:58:53Z")

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You are completely hijacking a topic here that is asking for **removal** of items from the Google index.

Feel free to open a dedicated topic to discuss this. There are changes we do support like having a reasonable HTML off version of the user summary page… however you are doing is totally derailing this topic. We have survived fine for the last 5 years without indexing user pages, lots of users **DO NOT** want their forum user page indexed by Google. Tons of profiles are thin and pointless. Turning this on, even just for TL2, can burn a lot of forums in Google cause of the dupe content.

You can see previous discussions here:

> [@Excluding user profiles in robots.txt (or allow edit of file)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excluding-user-profiles-in-robots-txt-or-allow-edit-of-file/15886):
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> After the latest Google Panda update, I found myself on the unhappy end of a 15% drop in visitors via Google, which led me to do some research on what exactly Google has indexed for my site. According to a quick search using “site:discuss.howtogeek.com/users/” I noticed that all of the user profiles are being indexed in Google, despite having almost no useful information on any of them. So on my very small forum that’s 4,310 additional URLs that are indexed in Google despite having very little …

> [@Why there are lots of Disallow rule in robots.txt?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-there-are-lots-of-disallow-rule-in-robots-txt/84251):
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> Does it prevent indexing in the SERPs? Never. Why does this happen? What best can be done? Please allow editing of the robots.txt file, we will do our best. wink Thanks

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-compared-to-other-well-known-tools/3914](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-compared-to-other-well-known-tools/3914)

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