Yes, that's what I have in mind. So here's the thing: I do have robots.txt file (it shows up when I type the URL and also on search console), but I can't find it in C-Panel. Weird. I'm thinking alidropship addon creates a virtual file. My ther sites that don't use alidropship all have a physical robots.txt file which I created using Yoast. What's wierd is that yoast just throws up an error when I try to make a new robots file or edit the existing one.And if you don't have one, you will have to make one. Just create a normal txt file and rename it. I use All in One SEO and it has a built in robots.txt.
I'm guessing you want to use my suggestion to block Google from indexing images hosted on Aliexpress, right?
Here is a copy of my robots.txt file
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
User-agent: *
Disallow: /https://ae01.alicdn.com/*.jpg$
Disallow: /https://ae01.alicdn.com/*.jpeg$
Disallow: /https://ae01.alicdn.com/*.png$
Disallow: /https://ae01.alicdn.com/*.gif$
Insert URL to sitemap here.
Just paste that into a txt file, rename it to "robots.txt" and upload it to your root directory, like Mar showed above.
You should add the URL to your sitemap too. It would look something like this ...
Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml.gz
Check the Alidropship settings for the URL. I'm not sure, but I think it's in the SEO section. Can't remember, I use Woo now,
It does. And from memory (Not using Original anymore) there's no way to edit it as far as I know. Maybe I'm wrong.I'm thinking alidropship addon creates a virtual file.
Hey thanks for the help - I'll give it a shot. I'll let you know if I get somewhere...I just had a thought. The Original plugin's virtual robots.txt may be stored in the Options table in the database. If so, you could edit it there via cPanel>PHPMyAdmin. Anyone know if it IS stored there?
You could just have a look I guess ... but the Options table has up to 20 or more pages to search through.